Poke Definition

pōk
poked, pokes, poking
verb
poked, pokes, poking
To push or jab with a stick, finger, etc.; prod.
Webster's New World
To make (a hole or pathway, for example) by or as if by prodding, elbowing, or jabbing.
I poked my way to the front of the crowd.
American Heritage
To pry or search.
Webster's New World
To make by poking.
To poke a hole in a bag.
Webster's New World
To make jabs with a stick, poker, etc. (at something)
Webster's New World
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noun
pokes
The act of poking; jab; thrust; nudge.
Webster's New World
A blow with the fist.
Webster's New World
One who moves slowly or aimlessly; a dawdler.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
A poke bonnet, or its projecting front brim.
Webster's New World
idiom
poke fun at
  • To ridicule in a mischievous manner.
American Heritage
poke fun at
  • to ridicule or deride, esp. satirically or slyly
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Poke

Noun

Singular:
poke
Plural:
pokes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Poke

  • poke fun at
  • poke fun at

Origin of Poke

  • Perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), perhaps imitative.

    From Wiktionary

  • Short for dialectal pocan of Virginia Algonquian origin akin to puccoon

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, pocan (“pokeweed") (quod vide).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English poken probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English probably from Old North French pocket

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman poke, whence pocket

    From Wiktionary

  • From poke

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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