[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/poke.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / poke

[← P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/P/)

# poke

«poke» in Mova's school dictionary: **to push something with your finger or a pointed object** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (poke, pokes, poked, poking); noun (a poke, pokes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To poke is to push something with your finger or a pointed object. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#m1)

2) To poke out is to stick out from somewhere so you can see part of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#m2)

3) A poke is a quick push with a finger or stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#m3)

4) To poke around is to look around in a place, sometimes where you should not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#m4)

5) To poke fun at someone is to laugh at them unkindly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#m5)

6) To buy a pig in a poke means to buy something without looking at it first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In safety, never poke anything into an electric socket, your ears, your eyes or an animal. Don't poke a wild animal or a sleeping dog. In stories, a head poking out of a hole shows someone hiding or curious. Phrases: poke fun at, poke your nose into (be nosy), poke out, poke around, a poke in the eye.

### examples

- Don't poke the dog with a stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#x1)
- He poked me in the arm to wake me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#x2)
- A rabbit poked its head out of the burrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#x3)
- Never poke anything into a socket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#x4)
- Stop poking around in my room! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#x5)
- It's unkind to poke fun at people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#x6)
- Daffodils were poking up through the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/#x7)

### note

Past form poked. "Poke your nose into" means interfere in other people's business. Poking someone in the eye can cause serious injury, even as a joke.

### In the corpora

- [The tailorbird pokes holes in leaves and pulls plant fibres or spider silk through them to sew a leaf cup round its nest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers/13/)
- [Trouble comes when people grab, poke, step on or come too close.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets/7/)
- [Never poke, throw things at or try to knock down a bees' or wasps' nest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/18/)
- [You must never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is switched off at the wall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/14/)
- [A boy in Texas woke his hamster in the daytime by poking it; the startled hamster bit his finger hard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «poke» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poke/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.