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pokingly

pokingly adverb: so as to poke out or protrude.

Adverb

pokingly (comparative more pokingly, superlative most pokingly)

  1. So as to poke out or protrude.
    • GMW Wemyss, Markham Shaw Pyle, The Transatlantic Disputations: Essays and Meditations
      […] the 1975 InterCity poster consisting simply of a Page Three girl, wearing a shirt and a hat and nothing else, bra-less (and this is clamantly, pokingly evident) […]
  2. (dated) In a drudging, servile manner.
    • We arose when the first streak of grey light appeared in the east, and, without stopping to prepare our breakfast, we resumed our toilsome march. The poor starved and thirsty mules plodded pokingly along, in rather a doleful plight.1848, William Hemsley Emory, Notes of Military Reconnaissance

Forms of pokingly

comparativemore pokingly
superlativemost pokingly

Origin of pokingly

From poking + -ly.

Questions about pokingly

What does pokingly mean?
Pokingly means so as to poke out or protrude.
What part of speech is pokingly?
Pokingly is an adverb.

Words near pokingly in the dictionary

  1. poking out
  2. poking someone's eye out
  3. poking the bear
  4. poking-stick
  5. poking-sticks
  6. pokingly
  7. pokings
  8. pokkah boeng
  9. Pokolbin
  10. Pokomam
  11. Pokomo

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