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Grammar : Adj
Spell : stohkt
Phonetic Transcription : stoÊŠkt

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Définition of stoked

Origin :
  • 1650s (implied in stoker), "to feed and stir up a fire in a fireplace," from Dutch stoken "to stoke," from Middle Dutch stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from Proto-Germanic *stok-, variant of *stik-, *stek- "pierce, prick" (see stick (v.)). Stoked "enthusiastic" recorded in surfer slang by 1963, but the extension of the word to persons is older:
  • Having "stoked up," as the men called it, the brigades paraded at 10.30 a.m., ready for the next stage of the march. ["Cassell's History of the Boer War," 1901]
  • adj thrilled
Example sentences :
  • The fire had been stoked in his absence, and was now burning gloriously.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • The fireman threw open the furnace-door and stoked the fire as we approached.
  • Extract from : « Aladdin & Co. » by Herbert Quick
  • Then he stoked the fire, blew it, and set them all round it to warm themselves.
  • Extract from : « Grimms' Fairy Tales » by The Brothers Grimm
  • He lighted up the furnace with dry wood, then stoked it full of coal.
  • Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by George Allan England
  • In one case he stoked the furnaces of a coal mine for a week.
  • Extract from : « A Captain in the Ranks » by George Cary Eggleston
  • The crabber took out a blackened, much-used pipe and stoked it.
  • Extract from : « The Flying Stingaree » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • He stoked her with more hate than coal, and I drove him to it, Cottie.
  • Extract from : « Just Around the Corner » by Fannie Hurst
  • He took a live coal and stoked up the bowl of his old cutty-pipe.
  • Extract from : « My Lady of the Chimney Corner » by Alexander Irvine
  • The body is an engine which must be stoked regularly in order to work.
  • Extract from : « Everyday Foods in War Time » by Mary Swartz Rose
  • When he had stoked up his pipe he leaned back and opened the book.
  • Extract from : « Burned Bridges » by Bertrand W. Sinclair

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