poke

• vi. 刺，捅；戳；伸出；刺探；闲荡
• vt. 刺，捅；戳；拨开
• n. 戳；刺；袋子；懒汉

词源不确定，可能来自中古德语poken,捅，来自Proto-Germanic*puk,捅，可能为拟声词。

1. 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

2. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

3. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow);

"he warned me with a jab with his finger"

"he made a thrusting motion with his fist"

4. (boxing) a blow with the fist;

"I gave him a clout on his nose"

poke

poke: see pocket

poke (v.)

"to push, prod, thrust," especially with something pointed, c. 1300, puken "to poke, nudge," of uncertain origin, perhaps from or related to Middle Dutch poken "to poke" (Dutch beuken), or Middle Low German poken "to stick with a knife" (compare German pochen "to knock, rap"), both from Proto-Germanic root *puk-, perhaps imitative. Related: Poked; poking. To poke fun "tease" first attested 1840; to poke around "search" is from 1809. To poke along "advance lazily; walk at a leisurely pace" is from 1833.

poke (n.1)

"small sack," early 13c., probably from Old North French poque (12c., Old French poche) "purse, poke, purse-net," probably from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *puk- (cognates: Old English pohha, pocca "bag, pocket," Middle Dutch poke, Old Norse poki "bag, pouch, pocket," dialectal German Pfoch), from PIE root *beu-, an imitative root associated with words for "to swell" (see bull (n.2)).

poke (n.2)

"pokeweed; a weed used in medicine and dyeing," colonial American, from native words, possibly a confusion of similar-sounding Native American plant names; from 1630s in English as "tobacco plant," short for uppowoc (1580s), from Algonquian (Virginia) *uppowoc. Later (1708) the word is used in the sense "pokeweed," as a shortened form of puccoon, from Algonquian (Virginia) *puccoon, name of a plant used for dyeing." Native roots for "smoke" and "stain" have been proposed as the origin or origins.

poke (n.3)

"an act of poking," 1796, originally pugilistic slang, from poke (v.). Also (1809) the name of a device, like a yoke with a pole, attached to domestic animals such as pigs and sheep to keep them from escaping enclosures. Hence slowpoke, and compare pokey. Slang sense "act of sexual intercourse" is attested from 1902.

She poked him in the ribs with her elbow.

她用胳膊肘顶他的肋部。

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She poked her elbow into his ribs.

她用胳膊肘顶他的肋部。

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I'm sick of being poked and prodded by doctors.

我讨厌让医生在我身上戳戳点点的。

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She got up and poked the fire (= to make it burn more strongly) .

她起来拨了拨火。

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He poked his head around the corner to check that nobody was coming.

他从转角处探出头来，查看有没有人过来。

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Someone had poked a message under the door.

有人从门底下塞进了一张纸条。

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Don't poke her eye out with that stick!

别让那根棍子戳着她的眼！

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The end of the cable was left poking out of the wall.

电缆头从墙里露出来了。

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Clumps of grass poked up through the snow.

一簇簇的草破雪而出。

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The kids poked holes in the ice with sticks.

孩子们用棍子在冰上戳洞。

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Her novels poke fun at the upper class.

她的小说嘲弄上流社会。

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(figurative)We've had journalists poking around and asking a lot of questions.

我们让记者追着问了许多问题。

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The police spent the day poking around in his office but found nothing.

警察花了一天时间搜查他的办公室，但是没有发现什么情况。

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He poked at the spaghetti with a fork.

他用叉子拨弄着面条。

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to give the fire a poke

拨一拨火

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He gave me a poke in the ribs to wake me up.

他捅了一下我的肋部把我叫醒。

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I prefer something with a bit more poke.

我想要马力再大些的。

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Lindy poked him in the ribs.

琳迪戳了戳他的肋部。

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He poked his finger into the hole.

他把手指插入孔中。

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He saw the dog's twitching nose poke out of the basket...

他看到那只狗一抽一抽的鼻子从篮子里冒出来。

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His fingers poked through the worn tips of his gloves.

他的手指从手套的破指尖处露了出来。

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Julie tapped on my door and poked her head in...

朱莉轻轻地敲了敲我的门，探进头来。

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We hadn't been able to poke our heads out and see what was going on...

我们无法伸出头去，看看发生了什么。

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He used a nail to poke a hole.

他用钉子刺了个洞.

辞典例句

The room is cold, poke the fire up a little.

屋子里冷, 把炉火拨旺一些.

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Dongpo and Fo Yin were good friends, and they liked to poke fun at each other.

苏东坡和佛印和尚是很好的朋友, 但是两人也喜欢彼此嘲弄一番.

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