poke borax

Verb

poke borax (third-person singular simple present pokes borax, present participle poking borax, simple past and past participle poked borax)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, often) To ridicule.
   • Maybe the geezer was a major really. Or maybe he was poking borax. That was the trouble with toffs from outside the area – you didn't know where you were with them.2004, C. K. Stead, Mansfield: A Novel, unnumbered page
   • ‘Your mother didn′t have any call to go slinging off about me moey, anyway,’ complained Hughie suddenly, and from thirty years ago steamed up a resentment that had never really gone off the boil. ‘She always did have a tongue in her head that would scare the hair off a coconut.’
     ‘Don′t go poking...1948, Ruth Park, The Harp in the South, Penguin, published 2009, unnumbered page