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Definition: Poking |
PokingNoun1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "poking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references) |
Synonyms: PokingSynonyms: jab (n), jabbing (n), poke (n), thrust (n), thrusting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Poking |
| English words defined with "poking": poke. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "poking": CHAR-FILTER OPERATOR ♦ Newmann hearth ♦ shaft spragger, spragger. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's not my fault, you keep poking me in the mouth (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) Kakarot! Stop poking me in the eye you idiot (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) You know, you're always poking fun at me. Whywhy is that (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois) | |
Lyrics | There's a suitcase poking me in the ribs (Another One Rides The Bus; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Branching coral poking up through sands off the Bahamas. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | A Gray Whale's tail poking out of the water along the coast. (Also called the Eschrichtius robustus.). Credit: Unknown. |
 | McLendon poking "Senate" wasp nest with "code of ethics" twig. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man poking fat man in stomach. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Poking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Poking" is used about 217 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 (-ing form) | 100% | 217 | 20,530 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "poking": Poking-stick. | |
Ending with "poking": eye-poking, fun-poking, tongue-poking. | |
| 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 |
poking | 38 |
poking pussy | 12 |
nipples poking | 12 |
nipple poking | 8 |
poking tattoo | 4 |
poking through | 4 |
anal poking | 3 |
belly button poking | 3 |
ass poking | 3 |
navel poking | 3 |
man painting poking renaissance sleeping teasing | 2 |
nipples poking through | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "poking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 戳 (Poked). (various references) | |
Danish | prikning (pricking up), stikning (pricking up). (various references) | |
Dutch | prikken (pick, stab, sting). (various references) | |
French | piquage. (various references) | |
German | schürend (stoking). (various references) | |
Greek | σκάλισμα (carving, hoeing, intaglio, poke). (various references) | |
Italian | pinzatura (binding, pinch, pricking up, stempress). (various references) | |
Korean | 찌름 (Pinking, Prick, Pricking, Prodding, Spearing, stabbing, stinging). (various references) | |
Manx | corraghey (poking with forefinger). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | okingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | picagem (pricking up, roughening by picking, scabbling). (various references) | |
Russian | протыкать (impale, pink). (various references) | |
Spanish | pinchado (gotten punctured). (various references) | |
Swedish | sökande (applicant, applicants, candidate, fumble, postulant, quest, search, searching, seeking, trawl). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | убогий (bald, bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poky, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scant, scanty, scraggy, skimp, starveling, stingy, wretched), висунутий уперед (advanced). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "poking": spoking. (additional references) | |
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"Poking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paking, piking, Pochin, poing, poki, pokin, pokings, Pokorny, pominki, pooing, poping, popkin, Porkin, porking, potkins, procing, puing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "poking" (pronounced pō"king) |
| 4 | -ō" k i ng | antismoking, broking, choking, cloaking, coking, croaking, evoking, invoking, joking, nonsmoking, provoking, revoking, smoking, soaking, stoking, stroking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, chucking, clanking, clicking, clucking, cocking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, politicking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, snaking, sneaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, streaking, striking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-k-n-o-p" | |
-1 letter: gipon, gopik, oping, pingo, pinko. | |
-2 letters: gink, ikon, king, kino, knop, oink, ping, pink, pion, pong. | |
-3 letters: gin, gip, ink, ion, kin, kip, koi, kop, nip, nog, pig, pin, poi. | |
-4 letters: go, in, no, on, op, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-k-n-o-p" | |
+1 letter: pocking, spoking. | |
+2 letters: kingpost, plonking, polkaing, spooking. | |
+3 letters: kingposts, pocketing, provoking, springbok. | |
+4 letters: groupthink, hopsacking, outkeeping, paddocking, padlocking, peacocking, prebooking, precooking, presoaking, springboks, topworking. | |
+5 letters: bookkeeping, groupthinks, hopsackings, karyotyping, kinescoping, nonspeaking, outspeaking, pawnbroking, pockmarking, politicking, postmarking, provokingly, stockpiling. | |
| 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. | |
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