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▪ I. poking, vbl. n.|ˈpəʊkɪŋ|
[f. poke v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. poke: thrusting, pushing; projecting forward.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 60 With the push and poaking of launce hee perceth his entrayls. 1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. (1812) I. 189 The poking, and a bad inclination of her left foot, he cared not for. 1902H. S. Merriman Vultures i, Mr. Mangles..who carried his head in the manner.. known at a girls' school as ‘poking’.
attrib.1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. vii. (1903) 232 This poking fight of rapier and dagger will come up then. 1821Scott Kenilw. xi, I helped Pinniewinks to sharpen his pincers and his poking-awl. 1855Carlyle Misc. IV. 345 Madam, I drilled him soundly with my poking-pole.
b. Sexual intercourse. slang.
1968J. Sangster Foreign Exchange i. 16 ‘There's no law against poking,’ I said. ‘There is when you poke a fifteen-year-old,’ he said. 1978J. I. M. Stewart Full Term xvi. 181 He was petting her future mother in the heather long before she was born. And later..another young hopeful went from petting to poking. 1979L. Meynell Hooky & Villainous Chauffeur xiv. 187 Lover⁓boy is going to be busy (pounds before poking any day).
2. ˈpoking-stick (-iron). A rod used for stiffening the plaits of ruffs; originally of wood or bone, afterwards of steel so as to be applied hot. Hist.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. (Grosart) II. 44 That sin⁓washing Poet that made the Ballet of Blue starch and poaking stick. 1602Middleton Blurt, Master-Constable iii. iii. 106 Your ruff must stand in print; and for that purpose, get poking-sticks with fair long handles. 1606Rowlands Terrible Battell (Hunter. Cl.) 12 The poking yron is too hot. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 228 Pins, and poaking-stickes of steele. 1664Cotton Scarron. i. 4 Her Needles, Poking-sticks, and Bodkins. 1869F. B. Palliser Lace xxii. 268 When the use of starch and poking-sticks had rendered the arrangement of a ruff easy, the size began rapidly to increase.
▪ II. poking, ppl. a.|ˈpəʊkɪŋ|
[f. poke v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Projecting; thrust forward: esp. of the head.
1799Hull Advertiser 22 June 3/3 A repulsive kind of hat, which may be called the poking hat; it has a long projection, like the beak of a snipe. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women & B. I. iv. 70 [The giraffes'] necks..make a feeble-looking, obtuse angle, completely answering to the word ‘poking’.
2. a. Of a person or his work: That pokes or potters; pottering, peddling; hence petty, mean. Of a place: Petty, in size or accommodation; confined, mean, shabby, insignificant. = poky a.1 1 a, b.
1769Gray Let. to Wharton 22 June, I am never so angry, as when I hear my acquaintance wishing they had been bred to some poking profession, or employed in some office of drudgery. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park xii, That poking old woman, who knows no more of whist than of algebra. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxiv, I shall be shoved down into some poking little country-curacy. 1864M. Eyre Lady's Walks in S. France viii. (1865) 94 A chapel, which we reached..through a poking little room.
b. Cricket. With a batting style characterized by ‘pokes’ (poke n.3 1 c).
1836New Sporting Mag. Oct. 360 A remarkably bad poking back player, with no hit in him at all. 1898J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village xi. 241 If only something could be done to..rid us of that awful nuisance the poking, time-wasting batsman, there would be little improvement possible. |