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poke
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /p??k/
- (US) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /po?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
Middle English, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), which is probably imitative.
Verb
poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)
- To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. [from later 14th c.]
- To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
- (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around. [from early 19th c.]
- (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
- (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
- (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
- (transitive, informal, Internet) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
- (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms
- (rummage): fumble, glaum, root; see also Thesaurus:feel around
- (penetrate in sexual intercourse): drill, nail, pound; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- A prod, jab, or thrust.
- (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
- (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
- (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
- (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
- (informal, Internet) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
- A poke bonnet.
Derived terms
- better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Etymology 2
From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket.
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- (now regional) A sack or bag. [from early 13th c.]
- 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…’
- And then he drew a dial from his poke,
- 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 […]
- And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
- 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 …
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 91:
- In the summertime they'd reach out and snatch your straw hat right off your head, and if you were fool enough to go after it your poke was bound to be lighter when you came out.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:
- She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:
- A long, wide sleeve.
- Synonym: poke sleeve
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, pocan (“pokeweed”) (q.v.).
Noun
poke (uncountable)
- (dialectal) pokeweed
Synonyms
- see the list at pokeweed
Translations
Etymology 4
From Hawaiian poke (“slice crossways”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?po?.ke?/
Noun
poke (uncountable)
- (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
Usage notes
Often typeset as poké to aid pronunciation.
Anagrams
- kepo
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?poke/, [?po?ke?]
- Rhymes: -oke
- Syllabification: po?ke
Etymology 1
From portsari (“doorman”).
Noun
poke
- (slang) doorman, bouncer (at a bar or nightclub)
Declension
Etymology 2
From porno (“pornography”).
Noun
poke
- (slang) pornography
Declension
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?poke/
Adverb
poke
- slightly
Maori
Adjective
poke
- grimy
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pok, poc, puke
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman poke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??k(?)/
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- sack, pouch, bag
Descendants
- English: poke
- Yola: poake, pooke
References
- “p?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Alternative forms
- poque, pouche, puche
Etymology
From Frankish *poka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?.k?/
Noun
poke f (oblique plural pokes, nominative singular poke, nominative plural pokes)
- sack
- E puis les poudrez bien de sel e les mettez ensemble en une poke de bon kanevaz
Derived terms
- poket
Descendants
- ? Middle English: poc, poke, pooke
- English: poke (regional)
- Scots: pok, poke, polk, poik
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *pokowjä-, earlier *p?kewjä-, from pre-Tocharian *b?eh???ow-h?en- (definite), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh???ús (“arm”). Compare Tocharian B pokai.
Noun
poke
- arm
References
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “poko*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 434
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bolt
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b?lt/, /b??lt/, /b??lt/
- (US) IPA(key): /bo?lt/
- Rhymes: -??lt, -?lt
Etymology 1
From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *b?eld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
Noun
bolt (plural bolts)
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- 24 March 1774 , Stamford Mercury - "Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods" https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000254/17740324/001/0001
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- '1887, Chalres Reader and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir
- This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere.
- '1887, Chalres Reader and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- He shall to prison, and there die in boults.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,[2]
- Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him:
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- arrow
- dart
- nut
- screw
Verb
bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia
- This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, […] / And oft out of a bush doth bolt.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Translations
Adverb
bolt (not comparable)
- Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
- The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
- [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??s- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
Verb
bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- Graham flour is unbolted flour.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jacob to this entry?)
Derived terms
- bolt to the bran
- unbolted
Noun
bolt (plural bolts)
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- blot, blót
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b??l?d?]
- Homophone: bold
Etymology 1
From Low German bolt, from Middle Low German bolte, from Old Saxon bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt.
Noun
bolt c (singular definite bolten, plural indefinite bolte)
- a bolt (threaded)
Derived terms
- bolte (verb)
Related terms
- skrue (screw or bolt)
Etymology 2
Verb
bolt (imperative bolt, present tense bolter, passive boltes, simple past and past participle bolta or boltet, present participle boltende)
- imperative of bolte
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian volta (“vault”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bolt]
- Rhymes: -olt
Noun
bolt (plural boltok)
- shop, store (especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)
- Synonyms: üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, árus
- vault
- Synonyms: boltozat, boltív, bolthajtás
Declension
Hyponyms
- See also the compound words containing -bolt with the sense of a shop [store] below.
Derived terms
- bolti
- boltos
- boltozat
(Note: Most compounds with üzlet as an affix in the sense of ’shop, store’ can be expressed with bolt.)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Low German bolt
Noun
bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural bolter, definite plural boltene)
- a bolt (threaded)
Derived terms
- bolte (verb)
Related terms
- skrue (screw or bolt)
Etymology 2
Verb
bolt
- imperative of bolte
References
- “bolt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Norwegian boltr, from Middle Low German bolte.
Noun
bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural boltar, definite plural boltane)
- a bolt (threaded)
Derived terms
- bolte (verb)
Related terms
- skrue (screw or bolt)
References
- “bolt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bolt.
Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Icelandic bolti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bolt/, [bo?t]
Noun
bolt m
- bolt
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: bolt
- English: bolt
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