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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
poke
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
turns out to be a pig in a poke
▪ What if the car you buy turns out to be a pig in a poke?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ Now, they dragged one of the local lochs and they poked about in the river but they found nothing.
▪ Somebody was in there, poking about.
▪ Charlie told me it wasn't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops.
▪ Tam had complained earlier about how he was for ever sneaking up on them and poking about while they were building the fence.
▪ Lee was poking about, knocking dusty packets of seeds off the shelf and moving flower pots.
▪ He wouldn't take kindly to an outsider coming to interfere and poke about.
▪ My husband likes to poke about in the woods.
▪ A marabou stork was poking about nearby in a pile of rubbish, and I gave it a wide berth.
along
▪ Would you expect him to poke along in the slow lane?
▪ Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.
around
▪ By its light, he poked around in the charred remains of the nestboxes.
▪ Fakhru went to the wastebasket and poked around with his finger.
▪ Why not let me poke around quietly?
▪ In the harsh air she poked around in the flowerpots and bushes by the front door.
▪ I shan't inspect the harness, I shan't poke around the stables.
▪ After that he'd spent a lot of time with Jekub, poking around, finding out about it.
▪ If the dahabeeyah had had an engine-room Owen could have imagined him poking around happily in it.
▪ I poked around in the kitchen, checking out the fridge, the freezer and the cupboards.
out
▪ Numerous sponge bags hung on pegs, some with rubber ducks poking out!
▪ By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.
▪ A slim frame but tight little muscles there poking out from under the rolled-up sleeves.
▪ Belts were slung around both their hips, guns poking out of the holsters.
▪ It poked out from the edge of the fallen slab.
▪ Sort of round and with little things poking out.
▪ One of my socks is poking out from where the two zips meet, like a floppy white hernia.
▪ Many of them were the tops of volcanoes poking out of the ocean, and most were surrounded by deadly coral reefs.
through
▪ He is himself fresh snow, and the baby shoots poking through.
▪ The top stick of dynamite is covered with earth, leaving the wire poking through.
▪ The plastic dimpled, and a silvery point poked through.
▪ Smoke rose out of the crooked chimneys that poked through their roofs, white wisps trailing north with the wind.
▪ At the heads close-cropped to combat the lice and the holey jumpers with elbows poking through.
up
▪ The muzzle of a gun poked up - would they be caught in crossfire?
▪ With wet clothes clinging to her back, she looked skeletal, her shoulder blades poking up like sharp crags.
▪ I don't understand how you think, and I can't poke up with all this anger and jealousy.
▪ He pulled at it with his hand and it poked up from his skull.
▪ We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas.
▪ I looked up then and saw the head of a wasp poking up from the top of a candle on the altar.
▪ There were ends of broken rattan poking up.
■ NOUN
eye
▪ It felt like somebody was trying to poke his eye out from the inside with a pencil.
▪ Then one day doctors saw no corneal reflex when they poked her eye with a cotton tip.
▪ I decided to poke his eye too if he shouted or smacked me.
▪ He cut her throat, stabbed her in the stomach and tried to poke out her eyes with his fingers.
▪ And then, when I was really unconscious, he poked my eyes out.
▪ To make his intentions clear he will point energetically at your car and then poke himself in the eye.
finger
▪ Suddenly inspired, she leaped at him and poked her fingers into his eyes.
▪ Fakhru went to the wastebasket and poked around with his finger.
▪ She poked a finger into the luggage beneath her eyes, stretching the skin, trying to make it look young again.
▪ Getting feedback about your writing can be as pleasant as poking your finger into a food grinder.
▪ Okay, he poked a finger at me in Czecho.
▪ I poked my finger into his fist and felt him close his hand around it.
▪ We stroked the silky Rue de Rivoli lining, poked our fingers into exit wounds.
▪ I poke a finger into it; still cold.
fun
▪ Others, abandoning the usual Republican reverence for big money, poked fun at his inherited millions.
▪ A whole category of jokes has been created to poke fun at Microsoft and its operating system, Windows 95.
▪ He spoke often of Eliot, trying from time to time to poke gentle fun at him.
▪ My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.
head
▪ Some shuffle and bustle along, with stiff, tense movements, head poking forward.
▪ A giant cat's head poked out.
▪ I looked up then and saw the head of a wasp poking up from the top of a candle on the altar.
▪ Don't allow your head to poke forward.
nose
▪ Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?
▪ He merely watched the obscure corners of the busy planet and poked his stubby nose into dusty crannies.
▪ So he poked his nose through the letterbox.
▪ I didn't really want her poking her nose in anyway.
▪ Not like you to poke your big nose into areas that don't concern you.
▪ Not her national monument I told her, and she shouldn't come poking her nose in where it wasn't wanted.
▪ He poked his nose outside to see if he could tie off the cord.
▪ Didn't he ever stop talking, poking his nose in?
rib
▪ Ted said, poking Petey in the ribs.
▪ Bobby poked him in the ribs.
▪ Polly poked me in the ribs and I nodded at her and smiled.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pig in a poke
stick/poke your nose into sth
▪ No one wants the government sticking its nose into the personal business of citizens.
▪ Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Careful with that stick! You nearly poked me in the eye.
▪ Sherman poked his camera through the curtains.
▪ Someone poked me in the eye during basketball practice.
▪ The boys poked the fish with sticks to see if it was still alive
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By its light, he poked around in the charred remains of the nestboxes.
▪ I poked my head under the dripping awning of a newsstand and asked the proprietor.
▪ I shan't inspect the harness, I shan't poke around the stables.
▪ Instead, they stayed inside and poked their arms through the bars for their food, just out of reach.
▪ It's time you scrapped your overwritten early loves and learned to poke fun at the real thing.
▪ The muzzle of a gun poked up - would they be caught in crossfire?
▪ With wet clothes clinging to her back, she looked skeletal, her shoulder blades poking up like sharp crags.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fun
▪ In fact, one of his most endearing qualities was his ability to puncture his own pomposity and poke fun at himself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I gave dad a poke to wake him up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poke

Poke \Poke\, n. (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca ( Phytolacca decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

Poke

Poke \Poke\, v. i. To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.

A man must have poked into Latin and Greek.
--Prior.

Poke

Poke \Poke\, n.

  1. The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.
    --Ld. Lytton.

  2. A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person. [Slang, U.S.]
    --Bartlett.

  3. A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.]

    Poke bonnet, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.

Poke

Poke \Poke\, n. [AS. poca, poha, pohha; akin to Icel. poki, OD. poke, and perh. to E. pock; cf. also Gael. poca, and OF. poque. Cf. Pock, Pocket, Pouch.]

  1. A bag; a sack; a pocket. ``He drew a dial from his poke.''
    --Shak.

    They wallowed as pigs in a poke.
    --Chaucer.

  2. A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.

    To boy a pig a poke (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it.
    --Camden.

Poke

Poke \Poke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poked; p. pr. & vb. n. Poking.] [Cf. LG. poken to prick, pierce, thrust, pok a dagger, knife, D. pook, G. pocken to beat, also Ir. poc a blow, Gael. puc to push.]

  1. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.

    He poked John, and said ``Sleepest thou ?''
    --Chaucer.

  2. To thrust with the horns; to gore.

  3. [From 5th Poke, 3.] To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.

    To poke fun, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.]

    To poke fun at, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poke

"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" (compare 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.

poke

"small sack," early 13c., probably from Old North French poque (12c., Old French poche) "purse, poke, purse-net," probably from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *puk- (cognates: Old English pohha, pocca "bag, pocket," Middle Dutch poke, Old Norse poki "bag, pouch, pocket," dialectal German Pfoch), from PIE root *beu-, an imitative root associated with words for "to swell" (see bull (n.2)).

poke

"pokeweed; a weed used in medicine and dyeing," colonial American, from native words, possibly a confusion of similar-sounding Native American plant names; from 1630s in English as "tobacco plant," short for uppowoc (1580s), from Algonquian (Virginia) *uppowoc. Later (1708) the word is used in the sense "pokeweed," as a shortened form of puccoon, from Algonquian (Virginia) *puccoon, name of a plant used for dyeing." Native roots for "smoke" and "stain" have been proposed as the origin or origins.

poke

"an act of poking," 1796, originally pugilistic slang, from poke (v.). Also (1809) the name of a device, like a yoke with a pole, attached to domestic animals such as pigs and sheep to keep them from escaping enclosures. Hence slowpoke, and compare pokey. Slang sense "act of sexual intercourse" is attested from 1902.

Wiktionary
poke

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context US slang English) A lazy person; a dawdler. 2 (context US slang English) A stupid or uninteresting person. 3 (context US English) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward. 4 (context computing English) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game. vb. To prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick. (from later 14th c.) Etymology 2

n. 1 (context now regional English) A sack or bag. (from early 13th c.) 2 A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve. 3 (context Scotland Northern Ireland English) An ice cream cone. Etymology 3

n. (context dialectal English) pokeweed.

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WordNet
poke

  1. v. poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" [syn: jab, prod, stab, dig]

  2. search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office" [syn: pry, nose]

  3. stir by poking; "poke the embers in the fireplace"

  4. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist" [syn: thump, pound]

  5. make a hole by poking

poke

  1. n. tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous [syn: pigeon berry, garget, scoke, Phytolacca americana]

  2. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases [syn: sack, paper bag, carrier bag]

  3. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist" [syn: jab, jabbing, poking, thrust, thrusting]

  4. (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose" [syn: punch, clout, lick, biff]

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Wikipedia
Poke (fish salad)

Poke is a raw fish salad served as an appetizer in Hawaiian cuisine. Poke is the Hawaiian verb for "section" or "to slice or cut". Traditional forms are aku (an oily tuna) and he'e (octopus). Increasingly popular ahi poke is generally made with yellowfin tuna. Adaptations may feature raw salmon or various shellfish as a main ingredient served raw with the common "poke" seasonings.

Poke (pudding)

Poke is a Cook Islands dessert that is made out of over-ripe bananas, tapioca starch and coconut cream. There is a pumpkin version of the dish as well.

Poke (surname)

Poke is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Bob Poke (1906–1989), Australian politician
  • James Poke (born 1963), English musician
  • Michael Poke (born 1985), English footballer
Poke

Poke may refer to:

In arts and entertainment
  • Poke (game), a two-player card game
  • Poke (Ender's Game), a fictional character
Foods
  • Poke (confectionery), a dry, cone-shaped pastry
  • Poke (fish salad), originating in Hawaii
  • Poke (pudding), originating in the Cook Islands
Other uses
  • PEEK and POKE, BASIC commands, often used as cheats in video games
  • Poke (Facebook), a Facebook feature
  • Poke (Oklahoma State University), a nickname for an Oklahoma State Cowboys athlete
  • Poke (surname)
  • Poke language, a Soko–Kele language spoken by the Topoke people
  • Virginia poke, a perennial plant
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Usage examples of "poke".

His captor, a round-faced man with a scar twisting his lower lip, rattled off some sort of challenge, punctuating it by poking Alec in the chest with his finger.

Even in those years, only the most foolhardy explorers poked themselves over the altiplano rim of the bowl.

Poke and Lloyd would crash in on George, tie him and gag him, take the stuff, and maybe give him a couple of biffs and baffs for good measure.

When the hunters tired of fishing, and when they wearied of crossing the sand-dunes and the glaring, shimmering beachglaring and shimmering on every fine day of summer-to poke off the mussels and spear the butterfish and groper, they pushed through the Ceratopetalums and the burrawangs, and, following the tortuous bed of the principal creek amid the ferns and the moss and the vines and the myrtles, gradually ascending, they entered the sub-tropical patch where the ferns were huge and lank and staghorns clustered on rocks and trees, and the beautiful Dendrobium clung, and the supplejacks and leatherwoods and bangalow palms ran up in slender height, and that pretty massive parasite-the wild fig-made its umbrageous shade, as has been written.

She poked her head round the living room door, bade Mevrouw Beek a hurried goodbye and started down the narrow stairs.

Delilah, poking through a pile of flesh-colored knitted vests, gave it as her opinion that her benefactress had dealt the odious Miss Choice-Pickerell a crushing blow.

Mrs Biggs switched on the vacuum-cleaner and poked the handle round the room.

Miles peeled back the biotainer wrap from his left wrist, and gritted his teeth as a biocide swab stung and the needle poked.

The Icarii Enchanter cuddled the baby, whispering to him, and Caelum stretched curious hands to the man s face, poking and prodding till the birdman laughed and handed Caelum back to Azhure.

It was certainly not a very pressing invitation, but Blinky was a bear who poked himself everywhere, whether welcome or not.

Laurel poked at her sea bass and thought longingly of bluepoint crabs and the colors of the Gulf sky at sunset, the sound of the sea and gulls, the tang of salt air.

Gary remarked as Booger Bear poked his head out of the carrying pocket.

Anna poked a finger through the wire door of the carrier buckled into the passenger side of the bench seat.

A few moments later, as the crowd held its aching sides and mopped its eyes, Samson the Strong Man hauled prone, soaked, semi-conscious, fearfully hallucinating Buffo off up the gangway that led to the foyer as little children gave him one last tittering poke for luck before he vanished as from the face of the earth, while the clowns ran round and round the tiers of seats, kissing babies, distributing bonbons and laughing, laughing, laughing to hide their broken hearts.

Then she pokes the fire, draws a little buhl table close up to the hearth, spreads a white cloth, sets out the plates, puts the spoons by them, and enchanted, impatient, with flushed complexion, leans back in an armchair.