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 Translation for 'poke' from English to Romanian
NOUN   a poke | pokes
VERB   to poke | poked | poked
poking | pokes
SYNO biff | carrier bag | clout | ...
a da un ghiontto poke
a împinge [cu degetul]to poke
a înghionti [cu cotul]to poke
a-și băga nasul în cevato poke one's nose into sth. [coll.] [idiom]
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Usage Examples English
  • He has been quoted as saying "if you were like me you would be viewing milk as a food and not as a liquid" and "you'll see that I'm really a sheep in wolf's clothing" and "a joke's a joke, a poke's a poke......no poke, no joke."
  • Both cat and mouse start to poke their heads out from different pillars until Tom sees Jerry's back and tries to poke his behind with a nail, but only pokes himself.
  • Quite a few jokes poke fun at the permanent shortages in various shops.
  • In Oklahoma, poke salad may be added to the annual wild onion dinners.
  • The prosecution said that Kathleen's murder was most likely committed with a custom-made fireplace poker called a blow poke.

  • The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the name is related to the verb "to puck" (a cognate of "poke") used in the games of shinty and hurling for striking or pushing the ball, from the Scottish Gaelic "puc" or the Irish "poc", meaning "to poke, punch or deliver a blow": Pucks are frozen before the game to reduce bouncing during play.
  • Poke is a local cuisine that originally involved preserving raw fish or other seafood such as octopus with sea salt and rubbing it ("lomi") with seasonings or cutting it into small pieces.
  • Furthermore, the movie represented Batman's first major foray into Cold War issues, paying heavy attention to Polaris Missiles, war surplus submarines and taking a poke at the Pentagon.
  • The Tahitian word "po'e" is derived from the proto-Polynesian root "poke" which means "to mix", "to knead".
  • "Uqumaarrluk" is poke fish slightly aged and stored in seal oil.

  • It may be very similar in design to the poke bonnet – some sources use the terms interchangeably – however the poke shape had a wide and rounded front brim that extended beyond the face, according to fashion historian Mary Brooks Picken, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art notes that the poke generally shielded the face and had a wide brim that provided a large surface for decoration.
  • Ko Olina's Pizza Corner restaurant in Kapolei, Hawaii, developed a pizza called "Original Hawaiian Poke Pizza", which uses poke, a raw seafood salad, on pizza.
  • The word appears in Middle English as "pocket", and is taken from a Norman diminutive of Old French "poke", "pouque", modern "poche", cf.
  • One popular variation of coconut cake is coconut poke cake.
  • Inamona is used in poke and sometimes sushi.

  • Poke [...] (Hawaiian for "to slice" or "cut crosswise into pieces"; These restaurants serve both traditional and modern versions of the dish. ...
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