All poke synonyms
poke
P p verb poke
- horn β Cape. Cape Horn.
- check up β If you check up on something, you find out information about it.
- in-grain β to implant or fix deeply and firmly, as in the nature or mind.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- make the scene β the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- lay on β to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- eyeballed β Simple past tense and past participle of eyeball.
- beetling β a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- look over β the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
- bracketing β a set of brackets
- hold over β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- wedged β having the shape of a wedge.
- chunked β a thick mass or lump of anything: a chunk of bread; a chunk of firewood.
- mousing β a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
- filibustering β Present participle of filibuster.
- lazying β averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- lose time β delay, fail to act
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- worming β Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- lag β netlag
- hung over β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- grub β the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- downing β a downward movement; descent.
- impel β to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- hold off β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- gang up β an act of ganging up or uniting in opposition to someone or something.
- chunking β the grouping together of a number of items by the mind, after which they can be remembered as a single item, such as a word or a musical phrase
- muckraking β to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- hang over β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- horned β made of horn.
- choke off β To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
- ferreting β a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
noun poke
- ko β a knockout in boxing.
- whacking β large.
- moneybag β a bag for money.
- hod β a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
- carafe β A carafe is a glass container in which you serve water or wine.
- magnum β a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
- moneybags β a bag for money.
- canister β A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- attache β An attachΓ© is a member of staff in an embassy, usually with a special responsibility for something.
- hods β a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
- blow β When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
- lagger β a convict or ex-convict.
- bag β A bag is a container made of thin paper or plastic, for example one that is used in shops to put things in that a customer has bought.
- attaches β to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- loiterer β to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
noun, verb poke
- clonk β to make a loud dull thud