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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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slide
English
Etymology
From Middle English sliden, from Old English sl?dan (“to slide”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?dan? (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléyd?-e-ti, from *sleyd?- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German sl?tan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German sl?den (“to slide”), Middle Dutch sl?den (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit ??????? (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or (archaic) slidden)
- (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface
- (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
- c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
- They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.
- c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
- (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
- (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- Synonyms: toboggan, sled
Derived terms
- aslide
- let slide
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
Translations
Noun
slide (plural slides)
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dana to this entry?)
- (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- (clothing) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- (vulgar slang) a promiscuous woman, slut
Synonyms
- (item of play equipment): slippery dip
- (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity): chute
- (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide): runner
Hyponyms
- helter-skelter
Derived terms
- (transparent plate bearing an image): slide projector, slide viewer
Descendants
- ? Czech: slajd
- ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
- ? Portuguese: slide
Translations
Anagrams
- Diels, Seidl, delis, idles, isled, leids, sidle, siled, sleid
Danish
Etymology
from Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan?, cognate with Swedish slita, English slit, German schleißen, Dutch slijten,
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sli?ð?]
Verb
slide (imperative slid, infinitive at slide, present tense slider, past tense sled, perfect tense har slidt)
- labour; work hard
- chafe
Inflection
Middle English
Verb
slide
- Alternative form of sliden
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English slide.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /iz.?laj.d??i/, /?slajd??/, /?zlajd??/, /?slajd/
Noun
slide m (plural slides)
- slide (transparent image for projecting)
- Synonyms: transparência, diapositivo
- slide (a frame in a slideshow)
- (music) slide (device for playing slide guitar)
- (music) slide (guitar technique where the player moves finger up or down the fretboard)
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