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Synonyms for poke
poʊkpoke
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Princeton's WordNet
poke, pigeon berry, garget, scoke, Phytolacca americananoun
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
Synonyms:
jabbing, punch, clout, garget, carrier bag, sack, thrust, slug, dawdler, lick, paper bag, lagger, biff, pigeon berry, thrusting, jab, drone, trailer, laggard, scoke, pokingdawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, pokenoun
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Synonyms:
bourdon, monotone, punch, prevue, pigeon berry, house trailer, garget, scoke, sack, thrust, carrier bag, clout, slug, dawdler, lick, drone pipe, paper bag, pilotless aircraft, biff, lagger, thrusting, droning, jab, drone, trailer, radio-controlled aircraft, laggard, jabbing, poking, previewsack, poke, paper bag, carrier bagnoun
a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
Synonyms:
pocket, paper bag, lagger, firing, thrust, sack, scoke, release, carrier bag, jab, sacking, laggard, lick, chemise, clout, drone, sacque, hammock, trailer, slug, dismissal, punch, jabbing, pigeon berry, liberation, biff, sac, dawdler, shift, pouch, dismission, thrusting, discharge, poking, garget, sackfuljab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrustingnoun
a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
"he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
Synonyms:
jabbing, punch, stab, dig, drive, clout, garget, thrust, sack, driving force, carrier bag, knife thrust, slug, dawdler, lick, paper bag, lagger, biff, pigeon berry, thrusting, jab, drone, trailer, laggard, scoke, push, pokingpunch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slugverb
(boxing) a blow with the fist
"I gave him a clout on his nose"
Synonyms:
jabbing, punch, type slug, pigeon berry, clout, jab, garget, carrier bag, sack, thrust, bullet, salt lick, slug, dawdler, lick, pull, paper bag, lagger, biff, clout nail, thrusting, sluggard, puncher, drone, trailer, lap, laggard, scoke, pokingjab, prod, stab, poke, digverb
poke or thrust abruptly
"he jabbed his finger into her ribs"
Synonyms:
compass, nose, incite, toil, pry, grind, dig, drudge, moil, dig up, jab, horn in, delve, nudge, grasp, prod, egg on, thump, cut into, knife, travail, labour, get the picture, hollow, stab, apprehend, pound, comprehend, turn over, excavate, savvy, labor, grok, intrude, poke at, dig outintrude, horn in, pry, nose, pokeverb
search or inquire in a meddlesome way
"This guy is always nosing around the office"
Synonyms:
stab, nuzzle, dig, horn in, intrude, prize, jab, nose, pry, wind, lever, obtrude, trespass, irrupt, thump, scent, jimmy, prise, prod, poundpokeverb
stir by poking
"poke the embers in the fireplace"
Synonyms:
dig, intrude, nose, pry, prod, stab, pound, thump, horn in, jabthump, pound, pokeverb
hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
"the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
Synonyms:
stab, horn in, prod, dig, intrude, beat, ram down, thud, lumber, pound, impound, nose, pound up, pry, thump, jab, ram, pound offpokeverb
make a hole by poking
Synonyms:
dig, intrude, nose, pry, prod, stab, pound, thump, horn in, jab
Editors Contribution
obstrude
become noticeable in an unwelcome or intrusive way
Submitted by @Muskan on December 28, 2020
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pokenoun
pokenoun
Synonyms:
(Bot.) garget, pigeon-berry, poke-weed (phytolacca decandra)pokeverb
Synonyms:
grope, feel one's way
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
poke
Synonyms:
Pokeweed, see there, Phytolacca americana
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#625 | release | |
#737 | drive | |
#1899 | wind | |
#2073 | ||
#2137 | labor | |
#2805 | preview | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3213 | ram | |
#3526 | labour | |
#3587 | push | |
#3711 | shift | |
#3810 | pull | |
#3903 | trailer | |
#4300 | prize | |
#4910 | pound | |
#5065 | jimmy | |
#5631 | knife | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#5959 | nose | |
#7679 | bullet | |
#7788 | dig | |
#8114 | punch | |
#8608 | lap | |
#9566 | hollow | |
#10647 | compass | |
#11298 | firing | |
#11552 | pouch | |
#11626 | liberation | |
#11642 | lumber | |
#11945 | sac | |
#12422 | lever | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#12576 | prod | |
#12751 | lick | |
#13121 | scent | |
#13142 | grasp | |
#13468 | savvy | |
#14057 | dismissal | |
#15199 | sack | |
#15427 | grind | |
#19589 | slug | |
#19711 | stab | |
#20854 | poke | |
#21181 | comprehend | |
#21524 | monotone | |
#22911 | hammock | |
#25036 | drudge | |
#27183 | nudge | |
#29951 | travail | |
#31630 | jab | |
#31696 | drone | |
#31869 | poking | |
#33365 | trespass | |
#34141 | delve | |
#34187 | clout | |
#35150 | toil | |
#41272 | chemise | |
#41588 | thump | |
#42683 | incite | |
#42756 | pry | |
#44867 | biff | |
#45397 | thud | |
#47316 | thrusting | |
#50952 | prise | |
#53441 | apprehend | |
#58820 | intrude | |
#64307 | grok | |
#66000 | sacking | |
#73203 | impound | |
#76481 | excavate | |
#94007 | bourdon | |
#94698 | droning | |
#108360 | puncher | |
#148156 | jabbing | |
#155334 | laggard | |
#192719 | prevue | |
#200615 | nuzzle | |
#239454 | moil | |
#276449 | sluggard | |
#328722 | lagger |
How to use poke in a sentence?
The Wizard of Christchurch takes someone to do something unusual to poke The Wizard of Christchurch head in to create a zeigeist change, and those people are magicians.
His style is a little gruff. You can poke at him and get him angry, but he's good at rolling out of it, he's got numbers, he's got facts, and if he gets caught by surprise he'll shift really quickly to his stump message. I don't think Hillary stands a chance against him.
I kind of slide and my foot is stuck in the mud, and the next thing I know, I see the lunge, he starts clamping down pretty tight and he started to pull, and the next thing I do, I instantly, here's my fingers, I poke through the eye.
Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.
It is so absurd it borders on total stupidity, as regards these( email) batches, that is not our headache. We never poke our noses into others' affairs and we really don't like it when people try to poke their nose into ours.
Translations for poke
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- نكزArabic
- prohrábnoutCzech
- Sack, anstupsen, schüren, stochernGerman
- hurgarSpanish
- tökkiä, kohentaa, t, säkki, pussi, tökätä, sorkkiaFinnish
- piquer, attiserFrench
- उंगली करनाHindi
- pungolare, attizzare, ficcare, spronareItalian
- つつく, 突くJapanese
- poken, porren, opporrenDutch
- pirke, stikke, nøreNorwegian
- dźgnąćPolish
- cutucarPortuguese
- мешать, сунуть, ткнуть, тыкать, совать, шуроватьRussian
- petaSwedish
- ஷீட்களைTamil
- 戳Chinese
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