Poke is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POKE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to prod
• prod and stir (a fire) with a poker to make it burn more fiercely
• make (a hole) in something by prodding or jabbing at it
• (of a man) have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
• protrude and be visible
• To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.
• To thrust with the horns; to gore.
• To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.
• To search; to feel one\'s way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.
• poke or thrust abruptly
• search or inquire in a meddlesome way
• stir by poking
• hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
• make a hole by poking
• jab or prod (someone or something) with one's finger or a sharp object
• thrust (something, such as one's head) in a particular direction
• jab or prod with one's finger, a stick, etc
NOUN:
• an act of poking someone or something
• an act of sexual intercourse.
• a look or search around a place
• power or acceleration in a car
• a bag or small sack
• a purse or wallet
• a North American plant of the lily family with a poisonous black rhizome and tall sprays of yellow-green flowers.
• A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.
• A bag; a sack; a pocket.
• A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.
• The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.
• A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.
• A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
• tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
• someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
• a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer\'s purchases
• a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
• (boxing) a blow with the fist
• poking
• a woman's bonnet with a projecting brim or front, popular especially in the early 19th century.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to push or prod
• jab or prod with one\'s finger, a stick, etc

Words related to POKE

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Words that contain POKE

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How to use POKE in a sentence

• What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the Poke! I confess that it excites me to behold them.
• No Boche would dare to poke the beak of his engine above the housetops.
• I paid no further attention to their attacks than to occasionally poke fun at them.
• We boys used to poke all kinds of fun at him because one windy day his hat and his wig were blown off together, and we discovered that he was as bald as an egg.
• The people used to poke at it with sticks, and my childish heart would swell with indignation as I saw their insults, and the mien with which they were borne by the monarch-bird.
• Hinpoha longed to poke him in order to make him give some expression of feeling.
• We poke a good deal of fun at book learning nowadays, and there is a pedantic type of book learning that certainly deserves all the ridicule that can be heaped upon it.
• The Germans were very close now and he had just time to poke up some branches to hide the opening through which he had fallen.
• TOM THUMB THERE was once a poor countryman who used to sit in the chimney-corner all evening and poke the fire, while his wife sat at her spinning-wheel.
• He saw the beast there close to him, and his first thought was to poke the butt of the rifle directly at its head, striking with all his force.
• They make a cake, poke a stick through it, fasten it upon the horn of an ox, and say certain words, begging a good crop of corn for the master.
• People poke fun at me for having him around, but he drives off the blues sometimes.
• Besides, he had changed his mind since the wooden poke had been put on him, and somehow his running away seemed very foolish now.
• The little fellow lay there, wriggling very feebly, until his mother gave him another poke that turned him over.
• Then, with a last poke at her hair, Miss Letitia admitted the teacher.
• Many times have I seen her poke her black muzzle over the fence and look down the lane.
• I began systematically to poke with a stick I carried into every low-growing mass of vines or bushes.
• God knows what might come of it if they send the lawyers here to poke their noses into the affair like hunting-dogs.
• It was my eagerness to see you make full use of them that made me poke fun at you and keep you out of the place that rightfully was yours.
• Men are apt to poke things away careless if they has the top, and the bottom one is best to use for your own things.
• You might tell that funny editorial man to give Adams a poke now and then, and stop throwing chestnuts about gold bricks and green goods at farmers.
• Having done this, and sent Susan out with the notes, she went upstairs, and once more put on her black silk dress, her old-fashioned mantle, and her high poke bonnet.
• Next to the kitchen the family bed room where Poke Drury and his dreary looking spouse slept.
• Poke Drury, in his big general room again, stood staring with troubled face at the other men.
• It is a two-seated buckboard, drawn by one horse, and the back seat is covered with a hood like an old-fashioned poke bonnet.
• But Pete gave him a terrible poke right in the stomach, and Cuffy sat down quickly on the ground and began to groan.

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