pokingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpəʊkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊkɪŋ/

Forms: see poke v.¹ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < poke v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of poke v.¹ (in various senses); an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking with pushing action > poking or prodding

poking1582

prodding1864

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > specific part of body > in some direction or purposefully

protrusion1646

extension1741

poking1811

outputting1883

outshoot1897

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 36 With the push and poaking of launce hee perceth his entrayls.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F3 This poking fight of rapier and dagger will come vp then.

1609 T. Dekker Worke for Armorours sig. C2 What starching of ruffes, what poaking, what stiffning of falles, what painting of..lips.

1657 G. G. D'Ouvilly False Favourit Disgrac'd iii. i. 54 I resolve rather To suffer a dry private beating, which breaks no bones; Than run th'arischa of my life, with dangerous poking.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. vi. 22 With that poaking and searching they break and destroy that natural Gluten or Balsom (which settleth for the healing, and is the healing it self).

1703 T. D'Urfey Old Mode & New i. i. 14 My arbitrary Will may chance to direct the Motions of my Hand and Sword towards the poking of your Guts.

1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. xi. 189 The poking, and a bad inclination of her left foot, he cared not for.

1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg in Wks. (1862) V. 246 For the rattling of dice and the shuffling of cards, And the poking of balls into pockets!

1902 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Vultures i Mr. Mangles..who carried his head in the manner..known at a girls' school as ‘poking’.

1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire (1963) 91 Possibly..certain arcane connections had been established between the abandoned passage and the outer world..by the blind pokings of time itself.

1996 Amer. Health June 70/2 The morning is devoted to pokings, probings and tests, starting with blood drawing and followed by a complete physical.

2. coarse slang. Sexual intercourse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

ymonec950

moneOE

meanc1175

manredc1275

swivinga1300

couplec1320

companyc1330

fellowred1340

the service of Venusc1350

miskissinga1387

fellowshipc1390

meddlinga1398

carnal knowinga1400

flesha1400

knowledgea1400

knowledginga1400

japec1400

commoning?c1425

commixtionc1429

itc1440

communicationc1450

couplingc1475

mellingc1480

carnality1483

copulation1483

mixturea1500

Venus act?1507

Venus exercise?1507

Venus play?1507

Venus work?1507

conversation?c1510

flesh-company1522

act?1532

carnal knowledge1532

occupying?1544

congression1546

soil1555

conjunction1567

fucking1568

rem in re1568

commixture1573

coiture1574

shaking of the sheets?1577

cohabitation1579

bedding1589

congress1589

union1598

embrace1599

making-outa1601

rutting1600

noddy1602

poop-noddy1606

conversinga1610

carnal confederacy1610

wapping1610

businessa1612

coition1615

doinga1616

amation1623

commerce1624

hot cocklesa1627

other thing1628

buck1632

act of love1638

commistion1658

subagitation1658

cuntc1664

coit1671

intimacy1676

the last favour1676

quiffing1686

old hat1697

correspondence1698

frigging1708

Moll Peatley1711

coitus1713

sexual intercourse1753

shagging1772

connection1791

intercourse1803

interunion1822

greens1846

tail1846

copula1864

poking1864

fuckeea1866

sex relation1871

wantonizing1884

belly-flopping1893

twatting1893

jelly roll1895

mattress-jig1896

sex1900

screwing1904

jazz1918

zig-zig1918

other1922

booty1926

pigmeat1926

jazzing1927

poontang1927

relations1927

whoopee1928

nookie1930

hump1931

jig-a-jig1932

homework1933

quickie1933

nasty1934

jig-jig1935

crumpet1936

pussy1937

Sir Berkeley1937

pom-pom1945

poon1947

charvering1954

mollocking1959

leg1967

rumpy-pumpy1968

shafting1971

home plate1972

pata-pata1977

bonking1985

legover1985

knobbing1986

rumpo1986

fanny1993

1864 H. Levin in T. P. Lowry Story Soldiers wouldn't Tell (1994) iii. 28 Several nights a week our lonely post is visited by two sisters who are rentable for riding... Amanda is about 15 and my favorite. She has never asked for more of me than good poking.

1927 in G. Legman Limerick (1979) 237 There was a young girl from the Creek Who had her periods twice every week. ‘How very provoking,’ Said the Vicar from Woking, ‘There's no time for poking, so to speak.’

1968 J. Sangster Foreign Exchange i. 16 ‘There's no law against poking,’ I said. ‘There is when you poke a fifteen-year-old,’ he said.

1978 J. 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.

Compounds

C1.

† poking-awl n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. xi. 283 I helped Pinniewinks to sharpen his pincers and his poking-awl.

poking-pole n.

ΚΠ

1855 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. IV. 345 Madam, I drilled him soundly with my poking-pole.

c1872–4 E. A. Duyckinck Portrait Gallery II. 577/1 He surrenders,..is led by this black body-guard, armed with axes, shovels, poking-poles.

C2.

poking-iron n. now historical = poking-stick n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements

pressing iron1343

cold press1552

setting-stick?1578

putter1583

putting stick1583

poking-stick1592

pooter1596

poting stick1600

poker1604

goose1606

poking-iron?1606

iron1613

smoothing-iron1627

steel1638

box iron1640

smoothing-boxa1684

press iron1695

ironing board1721

sad iron1759

ironing blanket1774

ironing table1778

flat-iron1810

sleeve-board1826

ironer1833

Italian iron1833

press-board1849

ironing machine1851

goffering-iron1861

skirt-board1861

goffer1865

trouser press1880

ironing board cover1886

trouser presser1888

electric iron1890

press cloth1918

press-pad1924

tie press1926

steam-iron1951

pressing board1969

?1606 S. Rowlands Terrible Battell (Hunterian Club) 12 The poking yron is too hot.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vi. 98 Have done with that poking-iron.

1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 260/2 Poking stick or iron, rod, usually of wood or metal, formerly used to straighten the pleats of ruffs.

poking-stick n. now historical a rod for stiffening the pleats of a ruff (originally made of wood or bone, later of steel so as to be applied hot).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements

pressing iron1343

cold press1552

setting-stick?1578

putter1583

putting stick1583

poking-stick1592

pooter1596

poting stick1600

poker1604

goose1606

poking-iron?1606

iron1613

smoothing-iron1627

steel1638

box iron1640

smoothing-boxa1684

press iron1695

ironing board1721

sad iron1759

ironing blanket1774

ironing table1778

flat-iron1810

sleeve-board1826

ironer1833

Italian iron1833

press-board1849

ironing machine1851

goffering-iron1861

skirt-board1861

goffer1865

trouser press1880

ironing board cover1886

trouser presser1888

electric iron1890

press cloth1918

press-pad1924

tie press1926

steam-iron1951

pressing board1969

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 Wise was that sin-washing Poet that made the Ballet of Blue starch and poaking stickes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 227 Pins, and poaking-stickes of steele.

1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry IV. xlvii. 65/2 The ruff was adjusted or trimmed by what they called a poking-stick, made of iron, which was gently heated.

1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace xxiii. 287 When the use of starch and poking-sticks had rendered the arrangement of a ruff easy, the size began rapidly to increase.

1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 154 Poking sticks were the forerunners of goffering irons, stacks and machines, and were as essential tools for ruffles as was the starch itself.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† pokingn.²

Forms: see poke n.¹ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke n.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < poke n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare later poke v.² 3.The following may show an earlier example, although the sense is unclear, and it may instead refer to spear fishing (compare poke v.¹ 1b, poke-net n. at poke n.¹ Compounds, and also poker n.²):1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 399 Slauchter of blak fische, polking and polting or ony uther crymes.

Scottish. Obsolete.

The practice of fishing with a poke-net.

ΚΠ

1728 in H. Marwick Merchant Lairds (1936) I. 134 There are some harnes for pocking and some other things for you aboard Capt. Glassfoords ship.

1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea vii. 295 The proprietor..will not allow ‘pocking’, as a week would finish them all; but the people must all fish with the rod.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

pokingadj.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊkɪŋ/

Forms: see poke v.¹ and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke v.¹, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < poke v.¹ + -ing suffix².

a. That pokes (in various senses of poke v.¹); projecting; thrust forward.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective]

steepc1000

tooting?c1225

strutting1387

prominent?1440

extant1540

eminent?1541

pouting1563

poking1566

out1576

egregious1578

promontory1579

out-pointed1585

buttinga1593

outjetting1598

perking1598

jettying1609

juttying1609

out-jutting1611

outstanding1611

upsticking1611

out-shooting1622

jutting1624

outgrowing1625

rank1625

toting1645

projectinga1652

porrected1653

protruded1654

protruding1654

upcast1658

protending1659

jettinga1661

raised1663

starting1680

emersed1686

exerted1697

projective1703

jet-out1709

exorbitant1715

sticking1715

foreright1736

poky1754

perked-up1779

salient1789

prouda1800

overdriven1812

extrusive1816

stand-up1818

shouldering1824

jutty1827

outflung1830

sticky-out1839

sticking-up1852

outreaching1853

protrusive1858

out-thrusting1869

stickout1884

protrudent1891

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea f. 47^v My bowels Ile vnbreste and searche my wombe wyth pokynge blade.

1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies 16 The poking arts maister tels his doing thus.

1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving iii. i. 37 You see how the rose is ruffled on the top of his spur-leather, set it better with your poking finger.

1739 London Mag. Feb. 94/2 It's [sc. playing with battledore and shuttlecock] by most agreed A soveraign med'cine for a poking head.

1791 C. Smart Poems II. 166 Blind as a poking, dirt-compelling mole.

1799 Hull 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.

1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. iv. 70 [The giraffes'] necks..make a feeble-looking, obtuse angle, completely answering to the word ‘poking’.

1860 M. J. Holmes Cousin Maud & Rosamond v. 55 Nellie who had heard nothing of the letter sent the week before, wondered much who the ‘witched old thing with the poking black bonnet could be’.

1989 E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate i. ii. 28 You thieves of the five-and-ten, you poking predators of your own little brothers and sisters.

1993 E. Bailey Hidden Flame (BNC) A pretty chipstraw bonnet that at least provided a little place to hide her face under its poking brim.

†b. Cricket. Having a batting style characterized by jabbing strokes. Cf. poke v.¹ 1d. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [adjective] > types of batting

cross-batted1577

steady1826

poking1836

free1851

wrist shot1851

fast-footed1853

wristy1867

stonewall1880

forcing1888

poky1888

firm-footed1907

back foot1936

1836 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 360 A remarkably bad poking back player, with no hit in him at all.

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field vii. 114 One of the most awkward, poking, vexatious blockers that ever produced a counterfeit of cricket.

1898 J. 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.

2. = poky adj. (in various senses). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective] > engaged in trifling activity

holidayc1450

wantonizing1599

peddling1613

poking1748

pottering1826

poky1828

piffling1848

puttering1855

footering1859

tiddlywinking1869

frivolling1882

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > fussing or small-minded

fistinga1535

petty1597

whiffling1613

leguleian1615

fiddle-faddle1617

leguleious1660

pottering1720

poking1748

niggling1827

poky1828

whifflegig1830

niggly1840

pistareen1860

petty-minded1927

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible

unworthlyc1230

wretcha1250

seely1297

vilec1320

not worth a cress (kerse)1377

the value of a rushc1380

threadbarec1412

wretched1450

miserable?a1513

rascal1519

prettya1522

not worth a whistlea1529

pegrall1535

plack1539

pelting1540

scald1542

sleeveless1551

baggage1553

paltering1553

piddling1559

twopenny1560

paltry1565

rubbish1565

baggagely1573

pelfish1577

halfpenny1579

palting1579

baubling1581

three-halfpenny1581

pitiful1582

triobolar1585

squirting1589

not worth a lousea1592

hedge1596

cheap1597

peddling1597

dribbling1600

mean1600

rascally1600

three-farthingc1600

draughty1602

dilute1605

copper1609

peltry?a1610

threepenny1613

pelsy1631

pimping1640

triobolary1644

pigwidgeon1647

dustya1649

fiddling1652

puddlinga1653

insignificant1658

piteous1667

snotty1681

scrubbed1688

dishonourable1699

scrub1711

footy1720

fouty1722

rubbishing1731

chuck-farthing1748

rubbishy1753

shabby1753

scrubby1754

poxya1758

rubbishly1777

waff-like1808

trinkety1817

meanish1831

one-eyed1843

twiddling1844

measly1847

poking1850

picayunish1852

vild1853

picayune1856

snide1859

two-cent1859

rummagy1872

faddling1883

finicking1886

slushy1889

twopence halfpenny1890

jerk1893

pissy1922

crappy1928

two-bit1932

piddly1933

chickenshit1934

pissing1937

penny packet1943

farkakte1960

pony1964

gay1978

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent

narroweOE

straitc1290

scarce1297

scanta1533

pinched?1567

strict1598

thrifty1601

straitened1602

scanty1701

scrimped?c1716

pookit1818

poky1828

postage-stamp-sized1852

poking1864

boxy1870

pocket handkerchief1910

postage stamp1937

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [adjective] > type of accommodation

single-bedded1788

poky1828

poking1864

boxy1870

adult1956

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxv. 250 I live a cursed dull poking life here.

1760 T. Gray Let. 22 Apr. in Corr. (1971) II. 666 I am never so angry, as when I hear my acquaintance wishing they had been bred to some poking profession, or employ'd in some office of drudgery.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xii. 249 That poking old woman, who knows no more of whist than of Algebra.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. iii. 25 I shall be shoved down into some poking little country-curacy.

1864 M. Eyre Lady's Walks S. of France (1865) viii. 94 A chapel, which we reached..through a poking little room.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Whatever d'ye have sich a pokin' old fuller's he vor?

1939 C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 161 Her face changed slowly from poking suspicion to a brilliant..smile of welcome.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1582

n.²1728

adj.1566

单词	poking
释义	pokingn.¹ Brit. /ˈpəʊkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkɪŋ/ Forms: see poke v.¹ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < poke v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of poke v.¹ (in various senses); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking with pushing action > poking or prodding poking1582 prodding1864 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > specific part of body > in some direction or purposefully protrusion1646 extension1741 poking1811 outputting1883 outshoot1897 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 36 With the push and poaking of launce hee perceth his entrayls. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F3 This poking fight of rapier and dagger will come vp then. 1609 T. Dekker Worke for Armorours sig. C2 What starching of ruffes, what poaking, what stiffning of falles, what painting of..lips. 1657 G. G. D'Ouvilly False Favourit Disgrac'd iii. i. 54 I resolve rather To suffer a dry private beating, which breaks no bones; Than run th'arischa of my life, with dangerous poking. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. vi. 22 With that poaking and searching they break and destroy that natural Gluten or Balsom (which settleth for the healing, and is the healing it self). 1703 T. D'Urfey Old Mode & New i. i. 14 My arbitrary Will may chance to direct the Motions of my Hand and Sword towards the poking of your Guts. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. xi. 189 The poking, and a bad inclination of her left foot, he cared not for. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg in Wks. (1862) V. 246 For the rattling of dice and the shuffling of cards, And the poking of balls into pockets! 1902 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Vultures i Mr. Mangles..who carried his head in the manner..known at a girls' school as ‘poking’. 1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire (1963) 91 Possibly..certain arcane connections had been established between the abandoned passage and the outer world..by the blind pokings of time itself. 1996 Amer. Health June 70/2 The morning is devoted to pokings, probings and tests, starting with blood drawing and followed by a complete physical. 2. coarse slang. Sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 1864 H. Levin in T. P. Lowry Story Soldiers wouldn't Tell (1994) iii. 28 Several nights a week our lonely post is visited by two sisters who are rentable for riding... Amanda is about 15 and my favorite. She has never asked for more of me than good poking. 1927 in G. Legman Limerick (1979) 237 There was a young girl from the Creek Who had her periods twice every week. ‘How very provoking,’ Said the Vicar from Woking, ‘There's no time for poking, so to speak.’ 1968 J. Sangster Foreign Exchange i. 16 ‘There's no law against poking,’ I said. ‘There is when you poke a fifteen-year-old,’ he said. 1978 J. 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. Compounds C1. † poking-awl n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. xi. 283 I helped Pinniewinks to sharpen his pincers and his poking-awl. poking-pole n. ΚΠ 1855 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. IV. 345 Madam, I drilled him soundly with my poking-pole. c1872–4 E. A. Duyckinck Portrait Gallery II. 577/1 He surrenders,..is led by this black body-guard, armed with axes, shovels, poking-poles. C2. poking-iron n. now historical = poking-stick n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements pressing iron1343 cold press1552 setting-stick?1578 putter1583 putting stick1583 poking-stick1592 pooter1596 poting stick1600 poker1604 goose1606 poking-iron?1606 iron1613 smoothing-iron1627 steel1638 box iron1640 smoothing-boxa1684 press iron1695 ironing board1721 sad iron1759 ironing blanket1774 ironing table1778 flat-iron1810 sleeve-board1826 ironer1833 Italian iron1833 press-board1849 ironing machine1851 goffering-iron1861 skirt-board1861 goffer1865 trouser press1880 ironing board cover1886 trouser presser1888 electric iron1890 press cloth1918 press-pad1924 tie press1926 steam-iron1951 pressing board1969 ?1606 S. Rowlands Terrible Battell (Hunterian Club) 12 The poking yron is too hot. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vi. 98 Have done with that poking-iron. 1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 260/2 Poking stick or iron, rod, usually of wood or metal, formerly used to straighten the pleats of ruffs. poking-stick n. now historical a rod for stiffening the pleats of a ruff (originally made of wood or bone, later of steel so as to be applied hot). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements pressing iron1343 cold press1552 setting-stick?1578 putter1583 putting stick1583 poking-stick1592 pooter1596 poting stick1600 poker1604 goose1606 poking-iron?1606 iron1613 smoothing-iron1627 steel1638 box iron1640 smoothing-boxa1684 press iron1695 ironing board1721 sad iron1759 ironing blanket1774 ironing table1778 flat-iron1810 sleeve-board1826 ironer1833 Italian iron1833 press-board1849 ironing machine1851 goffering-iron1861 skirt-board1861 goffer1865 trouser press1880 ironing board cover1886 trouser presser1888 electric iron1890 press cloth1918 press-pad1924 tie press1926 steam-iron1951 pressing board1969 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 Wise was that sin-washing Poet that made the Ballet of Blue starch and poaking stickes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 227 Pins, and poaking-stickes of steele. View more context for this quotation 1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry IV. xlvii. 65/2 The ruff was adjusted or trimmed by what they called a poking-stick, made of iron, which was gently heated. 1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace xxiii. 287 When the use of starch and poking-sticks had rendered the arrangement of a ruff easy, the size began rapidly to increase. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 154 Poking sticks were the forerunners of goffering irons, stacks and machines, and were as essential tools for ruffles as was the starch itself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pokingn.² Forms: see poke n.¹ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke n.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < poke n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare later poke v.² 3.The following may show an earlier example, although the sense is unclear, and it may instead refer to spear fishing (compare poke v.¹ 1b, poke-net n. at poke n.¹ Compounds, and also poker n.²):1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 399 Slauchter of blak fische, polking and polting or ony uther crymes. Scottish. Obsolete. The practice of fishing with a poke-net. ΚΠ 1728 in H. Marwick Merchant Lairds (1936) I. 134 There are some harnes for pocking and some other things for you aboard Capt. Glassfoords ship. 1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea vii. 295 The proprietor..will not allow ‘pocking’, as a week would finish them all; but the people must all fish with the rod. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019). pokingadj. Brit. /ˈpəʊkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkɪŋ/ Forms: see poke v.¹ and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < poke v.¹ + -ing suffix². 1. a. That pokes (in various senses of poke v.¹); projecting; thrust forward. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] steepc1000 tooting?c1225 strutting1387 prominent?1440 extant1540 eminent?1541 pouting1563 poking1566 out1576 egregious1578 promontory1579 out-pointed1585 buttinga1593 outjetting1598 perking1598 jettying1609 juttying1609 out-jutting1611 outstanding1611 upsticking1611 out-shooting1622 jutting1624 outgrowing1625 rank1625 toting1645 projectinga1652 porrected1653 protruded1654 protruding1654 upcast1658 protending1659 jettinga1661 raised1663 starting1680 emersed1686 exerted1697 projective1703 jet-out1709 exorbitant1715 sticking1715 foreright1736 poky1754 perked-up1779 salient1789 prouda1800 overdriven1812 extrusive1816 stand-up1818 shouldering1824 jutty1827 outflung1830 sticky-out1839 sticking-up1852 outreaching1853 protrusive1858 out-thrusting1869 stickout1884 protrudent1891 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea f. 47^v My bowels Ile vnbreste and searche my wombe wyth pokynge blade. 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies 16 The poking arts maister tels his doing thus. 1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving iii. i. 37 You see how the rose is ruffled on the top of his spur-leather, set it better with your poking finger. 1739 London Mag. Feb. 94/2 It's [sc. playing with battledore and shuttlecock] by most agreed A soveraign med'cine for a poking head. 1791 C. Smart Poems II. 166 Blind as a poking, dirt-compelling mole. 1799 Hull 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. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. iv. 70 [The giraffes'] necks..make a feeble-looking, obtuse angle, completely answering to the word ‘poking’. 1860 M. J. Holmes Cousin Maud & Rosamond v. 55 Nellie who had heard nothing of the letter sent the week before, wondered much who the ‘witched old thing with the poking black bonnet could be’. 1989 E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate i. ii. 28 You thieves of the five-and-ten, you poking predators of your own little brothers and sisters. 1993 E. Bailey Hidden Flame (BNC) A pretty chipstraw bonnet that at least provided a little place to hide her face under its poking brim. †b. Cricket. Having a batting style characterized by jabbing strokes. Cf. poke v.¹ 1d. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [adjective] > types of batting cross-batted1577 steady1826 poking1836 free1851 wrist shot1851 fast-footed1853 wristy1867 stonewall1880 forcing1888 poky1888 firm-footed1907 back foot1936 1836 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 360 A remarkably bad poking back player, with no hit in him at all. 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field vii. 114 One of the most awkward, poking, vexatious blockers that ever produced a counterfeit of cricket. 1898 J. 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. 2. = poky adj. (in various senses). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective] > engaged in trifling activity holidayc1450 wantonizing1599 peddling1613 poking1748 pottering1826 poky1828 piffling1848 puttering1855 footering1859 tiddlywinking1869 frivolling1882 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > fussing or small-minded fistinga1535 petty1597 whiffling1613 leguleian1615 fiddle-faddle1617 leguleious1660 pottering1720 poking1748 niggling1827 poky1828 whifflegig1830 niggly1840 pistareen1860 petty-minded1927 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent narroweOE straitc1290 scarce1297 scanta1533 pinched?1567 strict1598 thrifty1601 straitened1602 scanty1701 scrimped?c1716 pookit1818 poky1828 postage-stamp-sized1852 poking1864 boxy1870 pocket handkerchief1910 postage stamp1937 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [adjective] > type of accommodation single-bedded1788 poky1828 poking1864 boxy1870 adult1956 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxv. 250 I live a cursed dull poking life here. 1760 T. Gray Let. 22 Apr. in Corr. (1971) II. 666 I am never so angry, as when I hear my acquaintance wishing they had been bred to some poking profession, or employ'd in some office of drudgery. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xii. 249 That poking old woman, who knows no more of whist than of Algebra. View more context for this quotation 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. iii. 25 I shall be shoved down into some poking little country-curacy. 1864 M. Eyre Lady's Walks S. of France (1865) viii. 94 A chapel, which we reached..through a poking little room. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Whatever d'ye have sich a pokin' old fuller's he vor? 1939 C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 161 Her face changed slowly from poking suspicion to a brilliant..smile of welcome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1582n.²1728adj.1566
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