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stoked

/stoʊkt/

stoked is the simple past and past participle of stoke.

Meaning of stoke

Verb (1)

stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To poke, pierce, thrust.
    • Ne short swerd for to stoke with point bityng / No man ne drawe ne bere it by his syde / Ne no man shal un to his felawe ryde / But o cours with a sharp ygrounde spere1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c....

Verb (2)

stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)

  1. (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
  2. (broadly, transitive) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
    • Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song1974, Joni Mitchell, Free Man in Paris
  3. (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

See all 11 meanings of stoke

Adjective

stoked (comparative more stoked, superlative most stoked)

  1. (slang) Feeling excitement or an exciting rush; exhilarated.
    • When you're driving hard and fast down the wall, with the soup curling behind yer, or doing this backside turn on a big one about to tube, it's just this feeling. Yer know, it leaves yer feeling stoked.1964, The Australian, 3 December 1964. Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, end of section 2, page 255.
    • One of the fishermen was really stoked. He was trying to shoot the shore break in his canoe.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

Forms of stoked

comparativemore stoked
superlativemost stoked

Phrases with stoked

Words that rhyme with stoked

Questions about stoked

What does stoked mean?
Stoked means feeling excitement or an exciting rush; exhilarated.
What is stoked the simple past and past participle of?
Stoked is the simple past and past participle of stoke.
What part of speech is stoked?
Stoked is an adjective.
How do you pronounce stoked?
Stoked is pronounced /stoʊkt/ (US).

Words near stoked in the dictionary

  1. Stoke upon Tern
  2. Stoke Works
  3. Stoke-by-Clare
  4. Stoke-by-Nayland
  5. Stoke-on-Trent
  6. stoked
  7. stoked up
  8. Stokeham
  9. stokehold
  10. stokeholds
  11. stokehole

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