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poke
I. \ˈpōk\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old North French poke, poque, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English pocca, pohha bag, pocket, Middle Dutch poke bag, Middle High German pfoch pouch, purse, Old Norse poki pouch, Old English pocc pock — more at pock
1.
a.
(1) chiefly South & Midland : bag, sack
< take the boys a poke of candy — H.D.Skidmore >
(2) : a pouch or purse for carrying nuggets of gold or gold dust
< threw their thick pokes of gold carelessly onto the counter — E.B.Lung >
(3) slang : wallet
b. chiefly dialect : pocket
2. slang : an accumulated sum of money : wad
< spent his poke — Chesley Wilson >
< struck it rich and kept his poke — Time >
3.
a.
(1) : a swelling (as a goiter) on the neck
(2) : a swelling appearing on sheep and associated with liver fluke infestation
b. : a disease caused by liver fluke infestation
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English poken; akin to Middle Dutch poken to poke, stick, Middle Low German pōken to stick with a knife, and perhaps to Old Irish būalaim I strike
transitive verb
1. archaic : incite, rouse
2.
a.
(1) : to prod or jab with or as if with the end of one's finger or the end of a stick or with the end of some similar object
< poked him in the ribs and grinned broadly >
< poked the burlap bag with a broom handle >
(2) : to set into movement or push or urge along by means of prodding or jabbing
< all he had ever done was poke a team or explore the trail or push cattle along — A.B.Guthrie >
(3) : to stir up (as the coals of a fire) with or as if with a poker
< staring into the fireplace and occasionally poking the glowing embers >
b.
(1) : pierce, stab
< a straw man that had been poked through with a pitchfork >
(2) : to produce by piercing, stabbing, or jabbing
< poked a hole in the drum >
c.
(1) : to strike with the fist : hit, punch, sock
< poked him in the nose >
(2) : to deliver (a blow) with the fist
< first poked a right to the chin and then a left to the body >
< threatened to poke him one >
3.
a.
(1) : to move, thrust, or shove especially with a quick action or with sudden force
< poked his head round the corner — Dorothy Sayers >
(2) : to cause to be directed in a particular direction or toward a particular thing by or as if by thrusting or shoving
< had poked the head of a boat into the mud — Frederick Way >
< poked his finger at his client — Willa Cather >
b. : to cause to stick out : cause to project
< kept poking her head in and out of the cab window — Louis Bromfield >
c. : to thrust forward in such a way as to be intrusive : interpose or interject in a prying or otherwise meddlesome manner : push forward obtrusively
< asked him not to poke his nose into other people's business >
< poking their great stupid faces into everything — Times Literary Supplement >
4. : to confine in some stodgy poky place
< didn't want to stay poked up in that town >
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to make a prodding, jabbing, or thrusting movement especially repeatedly
< walked up and down and poked among the rocks — John Masefield >
b. : to strike out at something with or as if with the fist
< kept poking at him but never hit him >
< cranks who poke at the schools — W.L.Miller >
2.
a. : to go investigating, looking about, or rummaging through something inquisitively without much order or system
< went into the attic where they poked about among old boxes and trunks — Louis Bromfield >
< they went everywhere, they poked into everything — G.W.Johnson >
< if he cared to poke about in his unconscious — Clifton Fadiman >
b. : to pry into something in an intrusive or otherwise meddlesome way
< is notoriously hostile to people who go poking into his private affairs — Irving Howe >
3.
a. : to live in or stay about a stodgy place : live in or hang about a place pokily
< doesn't want to poke around in that town any longer >
b. : to move or act with marked slowness : move or act in a largely ineffective, desultory, or aimless way : putter, dawdle
< watched the traffic poking along the road >
< just poked around at home and didn't accomplish much >
< talked for a while and then poked off >
4.
a.
(1) : to become stuck out : undergo thrusting out : protrude
< saw his head poking through the window >
(2) : to become extended or thrust forward
< saw to it that the railroad poked down closer to Texas — S.E.Fletcher >
< into the jumbled wilderness … poke the beginnings of a fabulous highway — R.L.Neuberger >
b. : to come into sight or notice especially with real or apparent suddenness : be visible or noticeable by being extended above, beyond, or out of something
< bell towers poke above the trees — Yale Review >
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- poke fun at
III. noun
(-s)
1.
a. : a quick thrust : jab, dig
< felt a poke in the ribs >
b. : a blow with the fist : punch
< gave him a poke on the nose >
2.
a.
(1) : slowpoke
(2) : an annoyingly stupid individual : dumbbell
b. : cowboy 3a
3. : a poky place
< wondered how people put up with living in a little poke like that — Mary Lavin >
4. : a device designed to keep an animal (as a cow, horse) from breaking through or jumping over fences and consisting typically of a collar from which a rod or pole hangs down at an angle so as to extend ahead of the animal
5.
a. : a projecting brim on the front of a woman's bonnet
b. : poke bonnet
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: modification of puccoon, pakon (in some Algonquian language of Virginia) any of various plants used for staining and dyeing, from pak blood
: pokeweed
V. noun
(-s)
Etymology: by shortening
: shitepoke |