poke

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Quotations 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 2 Finnish 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Declension 3 Maori 3.1 Adjective

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: pōk, IPA: /pəʊk/, SAMPA: /p@Uk/

  Rhymes: -əʊk

[edit] Etymology 1

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[edit] Noun

poke (plural pokes)

1. (archaic or obsolete) A sack, bag.

   To buy a pig in a poke.

[edit] Quotations

• c. 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Miller's Prologue and Tale:

  Gerveys answerde, “Certes, were it gold,
  Or in a poke nobles alle untold,
  Thou sholdest have, as I am trewe smyth.
  Ey, Cristes foo! What wol ye do therwith?”

  Gerveys answered, “Certainly, were it gold,
  Or in a sack/purse countless silver coins,
  Thou sholdest have it, as I am true smith.
  Ay, Christ's foe! What will you do with it?”

• c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:

  And then he drew a dial from his poke,
  And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
  Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock…’

• 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:

  When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.

• 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia:

  And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
  Which out of it sent such a smoke,
  As ready was them all to choke,
  So greeuous was the pother;

• 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573:

  … and as to shape, a nightmare has as much. Under the poke and the muff-box, the face sometimes entirely disappears …

[edit] Translations

• German: Sack m. (1), Kermesbeere f. (2)

[edit] Etymology 2

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[edit] Noun

poke (plural pokes)

1. The action of poking.

   I gave him a poke to wake him up.

2. (computing) (dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.

   Perhaps all those super hackers who so regularly produce infinite lives etc. could produce pokes to be used by 128K users. — Crash magazine (1988)

[edit] Verb

to poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)

1. To prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick.
2. To poke a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
3. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
4. (slang) To move very slowly.

   The horse-drawn carriage just poked along.

5. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 3

From pokeweed, by shortening

[edit] Noun

poke (plural pokes)

1. (dialectal) Pokeweed.

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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Etymology

from portsari

[edit] Noun

poke

1. (slang) doorman, bouncer (at a bar or nightclub)

[edit] Declension

Declension of poke (type nukke) singular plural nominative poke poket genitive poken pokejen pokein partitive pokea pokeja accusative poke poken poket inessive pokessa pokeissa elative pokesta pokeista illative pokeen pokeihin adessive pokella pokeilla ablative pokelta pokeilta allative pokelle pokeille essive pokena pokeina translative pokeksi pokeiksi instructive – pokein abessive poketta pokeitta comitative – pokeineen

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[edit] Maori

[edit] Adjective

poke

1. grimy