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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pohk |
| Phonetic Transcription : poʊk |
Definition of poking
Origin :- "to push, prod, thrust," especially with something pointed, c.1300, puken "to poke, nudge," of uncertain origin, perhaps from or related to Middle Dutch poken "to poke" (Dutch beuken), or Middle Low German poken "to stick with a knife" (cf. German pochen "to knock, rap"), both from Proto-Germanic root *puk-, perhaps imitative. Related: Poked; poking. To poke fun "tease" first attested 1840; to poke around "search" is from 1809. To poke along "advance lazily; walk at a leisurely pace" is from 1833.
- verb push at; thrust
- verb interfere, snoop
- verb move along slowly
- Sidney considered, poking a slim finger into the little holes in the box.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- "The dead are restless tonight," said Simba, poking the fire.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- What if Neill Sheridan, poking about alone with a candle, could see through that veil?
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- Great humble-bees haunted the walls, and were poking about in them constantly.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- Alexander moved about restlessly and fell to poking the fire.
- Extract from : « Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ » by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes
- A fellow can't be poking in the dark in a speech or anywhere else.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- The food before him he tormented, poking at it with a fork, but not eating it.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- It bores me dreadfully to have you and Mollie poking in there when we might be talking.
- Extract from : « The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World » by Margaret Vandercook
- "Get next," nudged Dave Darrin, poking Hazelton in the side.
- Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock
- Then he may have been poking around our quarters while we have been gone.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Beaver Patrol » by V. T. Sherman
Synonyms for poking
- arouse
- awaken
- bulge
- busybody
- butt
- butt in
- crowd
- dally
- dawdle
- delay
- dig
- drag
- elbow
- get no place fast
- goose
- hit
- idle
- intrude
- jab
- jostle
- jut
- lag
- loiter
- meddle
- mosey
- nose
- nudge
- overhang
- peek
- procrastinate
- prod
- project
- protrude
- provoke
- pry
- punch
- put off
- ram
- rouse
- schlepp along
- shoulder
- shove
- stab
- stand out
- stick
- stick out
- stimulate
- stir
- tamper
- tarry
- toddle
- trail
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