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Definition: POKED |
POKEDImperative & past participle1. Of Poke |
Date "POKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: POKED |
| English words defined with "POKED": blackguard ♦ guy ♦ jest at ♦ laugh at ♦ make fun ♦ poke fun, poke into ♦ rib, ridicule. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "POKED": trestleman. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I wanted the audience to feel the heat from the fire, the fear, because people don't like fire, poked, poked in their noses, you know when you get a cinder from a barbeque right on the end of your nose and you kind of make that face, you know, that's not a good thing, and I wanted them to have the sense memory of that. (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy) | |
Lyrics | And if your eye got poked out in this life (God Shuffled His Feet; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) We just poked a little empty pie (Twist in my Sobriety; performing artist: Tanita Tikaram) | |
Tongue Twisters | Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A very fat woman poked her head out of the tent and scowled at him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is important for you to wear this shield to prevent you from rubbing your eye and putting pressure on your eye while you sleep, and to protect your eye from accidentally being hit or poked until the flap has healed. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "POKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 90.22% of the time. "POKED" is used about 276 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 90.22% | 249 | 18,850 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.7% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.72% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 276 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "POKED": poked-out. | |
Ending with "POKED": toe-poked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
poked | 26 |
ass in poked | 4 |
eye in poked | 3 |
butt lady pic poked | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 戳 (Poking). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | stieß (bunted, hustled, impinged, punted, thrusted), geschürt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 찌르" (Pinked, Pricked, Speared, stabbed, stung). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | broddit (jabbed, pierced, probed, roused, stung). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | okedpay протыкать проколотый. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Phytolacca americana Lin., Phytolacca decandra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "POKED": spoked. (additional references) | |
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"POKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oked, paiked, pekid, pekkid, pewked, phocid, piked, pobed, Pobeda, poce, poed, Poeke, pofed, pogoed, pojke, poka, pokal, Pokalde, pokea, pokel, poken, poki, Pokot, pomed, ponked, poohed, Pooka, pooke, pooki, popkid, Popkov, Porket, Porkheid, pouke, Pouket, powed, poxed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "POKED" (pronounced pō"kt) |
| 3 | -ō" k t | choked, cloaked, evoked, invoked, joked, provoked, revoked, smoked, soaked, stoked, stroked, unprovoked, yoked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-k-o-p" | |
-1 letter: dope, oped, poke. | |
-2 letters: doe, kep, kop, ode, oke, ope, ped, pod. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe, op, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-k-o-p" | |
+1 letter: pocked, spoked. | |
+2 letters: desktop, knopped, plonked, podlike, polkaed, spooked. | |
+3 letters: copydesk, desktops, pocketed, pokeweed, provoked. | |
+4 letters: copydesks, monkeypod, paddocked, padlocked, peacocked, pokeweeds, prebooked, precooked, presoaked, spadework, topworked. | |
+5 letters: doorkeeper, dropkicker, karyotyped, kinescoped, monkeypods, peckerwood, pockmarked, politicked, postmarked, powderlike, spadeworks, stockpiled, unprovoked, woodpecker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4B 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -.- . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O K E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004B 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5049453938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, китайский, китаец |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, немецкий |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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