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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Poke \Poke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Poking.] [Cf. LG. poken to prick, pierce, thrust, pok a
dagger, knife, D. pook, G. pocken to beat, also Ir. poc a
blow, Gael. puc to push.]
1. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed;
hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.
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He poked John, and said ``Sleepest thou ?''
--Chaucer.
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2. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
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3. [From 5th Poke, 3.] To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.
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To poke fun, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.]
To poke fun at, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Poking \Pok"ing\, a.
Drudging; servile. [Colloq.]
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Bred to some poking profession. --Gray.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Poke \Poke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Poking.] [Cf. LG. poken to prick, pierce, thrust, pok a
dagger, knife, D. pook, G. pocken to beat, also Ir. poc a
blow, Gael. puc to push.]
1. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed;
hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.
He poked John, and said ``Sleepest thou ?''
--Chaucer.
2. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
3. [From 5th Poke, 3.] To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.
[Colloq. U. S.]
To poke fun, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.]
To poke fun at, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Poking \Pok"ing\, a.
Drudging; servile. [Colloq.]
Bred to some poking profession. --Gray.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
poking
n : a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with
a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with
his fist" [syn: jab, jabbing, poke, thrust, thrusting]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
poking
a.
drudging; servile
n.
The act by which something is poked.
vb.
(present participle of en poke nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
poking
a.
drudging; servile
n.
The act by which something is poked.
vb.
(present participle of en poke nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
poking
a.
drudging; servile
n.
The act by which something is poked.
vb.
(present participle of en poke nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
poking
a.
drudging; servile
n.
The act by which something is poked.
vb.
(present participle of en poke nocat=1)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
poking
Englanti vb.
(taivm-pprees en poke)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
poking
Engelska a.
(avledning en poke ordform=prespart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb poke)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Poking /pˈəʊkɪŋ/ الطعنFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
poking /pˈəʊkɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]postrkování
poking /pˈəʊkɪŋ/
fickend, vögelnd, bumsend, poppend, pimpernd, rammelnd, pudernd
Synonyms: fucking, banging, humping, screwing, mashing, tumbling, boffing, shafting, knobing, shaging, rogering, bonking, boinking, boning, shtuping, schtuping, rooting
see: fuck, bang, hump, screw, poke, mash, tumble, boff, shaft, knob, shag, roger, bonk, boink, bone, shtup, schtup, root sb., fucked, banged, humped, screwed, poked, mashed, tumbled, boffed, shafted, knobbed, shagged, rogered, bonked, boinked, boned, shtupped, schtupped, rooted
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
poking /pˈəʊkɪŋ/
hervorschauend, herausschauend
"Her blonde hair was poking out from under her bonnet." - Ihre blonden Haare schauten unter der Haube hervor.
see: poke, poked
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
poking /pˈəʊkɪŋ/
pikend, piksend, anstoßend
Synonym: prodding
see: poke sb., prod sb., poked, prodded, I felt someone prod me in the back.
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]poking /pˈəʊkɪŋ/ stoßend, steckend see: poke sth., poked, poke sb.'s eye out, poke (up) the fire, poke one's nose into sth., poke holes in sth., The stranger used a fork to poke holes in the potatoes.From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
poking /pˈəʊkɪŋ/ σκάλισμαFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈpoʊkɪŋ/
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "poking":
ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping,
creeping like snail, deliberate, delving, digging, easy, faltering,
fishing, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gradual, halting,
hobbled, hobbling, idle, in search of, indolent, languid,
languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, loaded for bear, looking for,
lumbering, moderate, nosy, out for, out for bear, poky, probing,
prying, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, searching, shuffling,
slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses,
slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering,
strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging,
turtlelike, unhurried, waddling