poke : Idioms & Phrases

• (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. Colloq.

Webster 1913

• noun North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
  white hellebore; American hellebore; Veratrum viride; bugbane.
  
• noun pokeweed of southeastern Asia and China
  Phytolacca acinosa.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant usually known as the white hellebore (Veratrum viride).

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• verb to push against gently
  prod; nudge.
  
  • She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant

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• noun a hat tied under the chin
  bonnet.
  

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• a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.

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• noun knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick
  

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• verb subject to laughter or ridicule
  laugh at; make fun; ridicule; blackguard; roast; guy; rib; jest at.
  
  • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
  • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
  • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

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• verb enter briefly
  
  • We poked into the bar
• verb examine physically with or as if with a probe
  dig into; probe.
  
  • probe an anthill

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• noun milkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed
  Asclepias exaltata.
  

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• verb reach outward in space
  reach out; extend.
  
  • The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk

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Pok"ing-stick` noun

Definitions

1. A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

Webster 1913

• (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it.

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• to excite fun; to joke; to jest. Colloq.

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• to make a butt of; to ridicule. Colloq.

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