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.