poke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pōk
ipa: /pəʊk/
enpr: pōk
ipa: /poʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: pokes
form: poking
form: poked
form: poked
Etymology: From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.
Senses: examples: text: Ward showed good pace to beat the advancing Reina to the ball and poke a low finish into the corner.
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
glosses: To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
glosses: To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
examples: text: I poked about in the rubble, trying to find my lost keys.
synonyms: word: fumble
word: glaum
word: root
word: feel around
word: fumble
word: forage
word: scramble
word: glaum
word: grabble
word: grope
word: grubble
word: poke
glosses: To rummage; to feel or grope around.
examples: text: The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics.
ref: 1984 July 24, Franco Frey, “SPECGRAFFITI”, in Crash, number 6:
text: If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error.
ref: 1985, Tom Weishaar, Bert Kersey, The DOStalk Scrapbook, page 44:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: peek
glosses: To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
examples: text: to poke an ox
text: I find from their testimony , which was not contradicted , that the placing of such a poke upon such a colt in such a pasture is not considered dangerous, and that farmers are accustomed so to poke their own horses, but that they are not accustomed to put pokes on or 'hamper' horses owned by other persons without the authorization of the owner.
ref: 1883, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Vermont, page 70:
glosses: To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
glosses: To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
examples: text: Indeed, when we poke users who normally do not have access to our profiles, they will be able to temporarily see our Basic Info, Work Info, and Education Info.
ref: 2009, Alexander Tokar, Metaphors of the Web 2.0, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 68:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
glosses: To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
examples: text: Maj. Cloutier commented to Lt. Clemm, "You know what they say about a girl who smokes: If she smokes, she pokes."
ref: 1996 November 25, Washington Times quoted in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbshttps://books.google.com/books?id=LPZfi4ADcusC&pg=PA235
text: He chewed her nipples and clitoris until they bled, and poked her until she could hardly walk. Grandpa never got enough sex […]
ref: 2000, Katherine Jones, Jerry's Nightmare, page 115:
text: No big deal. I poked Ana a bunch of times.
ref: 2001, Y tu mamá también [And Your Mother Too], spoken by Julio Zapata:
english: And Your Mother Too
translation: And Your Mother Too
synonyms: word: drill
word: nail
word: pound
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: cowpoke
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: more than one can poke a stick at
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: pokable
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke about
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke along
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke around
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke bonnet
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke borack
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke borax
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke box
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke fun
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke holes in
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke mullock
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke one's fun
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke one's nose into
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke out
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poker
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke someone's eye out
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: poke the bear
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: stick-and-poke
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: toepoke
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: unpoked
sense: Terms derived from poke (verb)
word: you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire