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Significats de poke en anglès

Wikidata

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.

Veure'n més
català
mandra

Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.

mandra
portuguès
injecção
català
empenta
espanyol
amenazador

A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

empenta
portuguès
murro
català
mastegot
espanyol
tortazo

(Boxing) a blow with the fist.

mastegot
Ús de poke en anglès
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Poppy had started using her pencil to poke holes in her paper.
The city of ember: book 1
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Then they can poke out their long, sticky arms and snag food.
BBC
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I gave him a fast hard poke that couldn't have felt good.
Sympathy for the devil
4
I read the letter and poke it into the stove, and proceed.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Compiled From Her Letters and Jo...
5
Kids at school and opposing sporting teams would 'poke' fun at me.
News.com.au
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If a poke-your-nose-in said anything about it, Madeleine answered, We get along.
Dagmar's daughter
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If you're high, I'll give you the money and forget the poke.
Lonesome dove
8
Well, I was mad enough to poke that sergeant in the eye.
A Yankee in the Trenches
9
But the man would not poke into that fire; nobody suspected him.
Native son
10
Beauchamp was not insensible to the slyness of the poke at him.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2
11
If he jumps for you, poke the old gun in his face.
The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South
12
There's nothing Grady loves better than a patient to poke and prod.
Midnight hero
13
It would be mighty awkward to poke into any of the others.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
14
Sitting by his side is a brown-eyed maid in a poke bonnet.
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
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To make the taco hold together, poke a toothpick through the middle.
The South African
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The fire had burned low, and no one stirred to poke it.
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories