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Poking with an elbow
Answer for the clue "Poking with an elbow ", 7 letters:
nudging
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Word definitions for nudging in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of giving a nudge. vb. (present participle of nudge English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nudge \Nudge\ (n[u^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nudged (n[u^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Nudging .] [Cf. Prov. G. kn["u]tschen to squeeze, pinch, E. Knock.] To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.
Usage examples of nudging.
And with the whisperings went chucklings and nudgings and winks, and such things have an effect.
Despite Robert's nudgings and coaxings, he refused to speak to the guest.
So we collected our Olympic gold medals, the high dive and the trampoline dance, the 300-kilo press and the fancy figure skating, the pole vault and the 400-metre hurdles, and by imperceptible nudgings and murmurings we clued each other closer to the ultimate moment, and then we were there, and for an unending interval we were dissolved into the fount of creation, and then the unending interval ended and we fell away from each other, sweaty and sticky and exhausted.
Don surrendered himself to all their grim nudgings in the direction of way-down.
Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells, and a fragrance filling the air—to a higher life than we fell asleep from.