poke
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9.9
- noun
- Archaic
:
bolsa
- He handed me a small poke containing homemade cookies.
- a pig in a poke
Examples
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A steady jingle of copper and silver flowed into his poke, though he never spent any of it without a severe crisis of principle.
Fiction book (1994) -
You tell Ma I said to get that poke of food ready.
Fiction book (2001) -
I saved a small poke.
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Ma, if you'll make me a little poke of food, I'd be obliged.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the middle of lifting out the hot jars, Darla Ann came in with her arms full of pokes and her shoes tracking mud, asking if it was true what she was hearing about Frances?
Fiction book (1990) -
After shopping, I carried a large poke filled with fresh produce from the market.
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The children excitedly opened the poke to reveal their new toys.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large bag made of paper, plastic or cloth for carrying things
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1.0
A bag made of paper that shops use to carry things you buy
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1.7
A bag shops give you to carry things you buy home
A bag used long ago to carry grain and other goods
Idioms
- Informal
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8.4
To do something on purpose to make an angry or dangerous person react
- Informal
1
9.9
To buy something without checking it first and risk being cheated
- Informal
A joking way to say something is very unpleasant or painful
Compounds
- US
A poisonous plant with large leaves and greenish yellow flower clusters that people use in traditional medicine
- Specialized
A quick push with a hockey stick that knocks the puck away from an opponent
A milkweed plant from eastern North America with white and green flowers that grows in shady woods
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Poke meaning a bag comes from an old French word for a 'pouch', and it is the same idea you see in the English word pocket, so a 'poke' was simply a small bag for carrying things.