poquer

See also: póquer, pòquer, and pôquer

French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), which is probably imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ke/

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Verb

poquer

1. (obsolete, intransitive, pétanque) to throw the boule up high so that it stops dead when it hits the ground

   Synonym: plomber

2. (slang, intransitive) to stink

   Synonym: puer

   • 2023 April, Siné mensuel, number 128, →ISSN, page 11:

     Tu vois, Tof, c’est pas compliqué de parler écologie aux jeunes. Par contre, ton gel, qu’est-ce que ça poque.

     You see, Tof, it isn't hard to talk to young people about the environment. Your hair gel, though – it doesn't half stink.

Conjugation

Conjugation of poquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	poquer
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	poquant /pɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		poqué /pɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	poque /pɔk/	poques /pɔk/	poque /pɔk/	poquons /pɔ.kɔ̃/	poquez /pɔ.ke/	poquent /pɔk/
	imperfect	poquais /pɔ.kɛ/	poquais /pɔ.kɛ/	poquait /pɔ.kɛ/	poquions /pɔ.kjɔ̃/	poquiez /pɔ.kje/	poquaient /pɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	poquai /pɔ.ke/	poquas /pɔ.ka/	poqua /pɔ.ka/	poquâmes /pɔ.kam/	poquâtes /pɔ.kat/	poquèrent /pɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	poquerai /pɔ.kʁe/	poqueras /pɔ.kʁa/	poquera /pɔ.kʁa/	poquerons /pɔ.kʁɔ̃/	poquerez /pɔ.kʁe/	poqueront /pɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	poquerais /pɔ.kʁɛ/	poquerais /pɔ.kʁɛ/	poquerait /pɔ.kʁɛ/	poquerions /pɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	poqueriez /pɔ.kə.ʁje/	poqueraient /pɔ.kʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	poque /pɔk/	poques /pɔk/	poque /pɔk/	poquions /pɔ.kjɔ̃/	poquiez /pɔ.kje/	poquent /pɔk/
	imperfect2	poquasse /pɔ.kas/	poquasses /pɔ.kas/	poquât /pɔ.ka/	poquassions /pɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	poquassiez /pɔ.ka.sje/	poquassent /pɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	poque /pɔk/	—	poquons /pɔ.kɔ̃/	poquez /pɔ.ke/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “poquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.