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poking

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpəʊkɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈpoʊkɪŋ//

The act by which something is poked.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of pokepresent participle and gerund of poke

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is poked.

    perfunctory proddings and pokings

adjective

  1. 1

    drudging; servile

Forms

plural
pokings
comparative
more poking
superlative
most poking
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).