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Definition of poking : 1. Drudging; servile.
2. of Poke

Synonyms:

laggard, driving force, dilatory, snaillike, drive, leisurely, dawdler, languid, push, scoke, punch, stab, lagger, poke, lagging, lick, dallying, clout, drone, sluggish, snail-paced, garget, sack, jabbing, paper bag, thrust, tardy, trailer, unhurried, dillydallying, pigeon berry, jab, slug, poky, carrier bag, dig, knife thrust, biff

inquisitive, curious, overcurious, nosy, eavesdropping, agog, peering, meddlesome, prying, questioning, searching, snoopy, fascinated, investigative, interested, agape, peeking

lancing, drilling, piercing, penetrating, punching, pointing, spiking, puncturing, gouging, needling, skewering, sticking, boring, perforating, spearing

dragging, slowing, crawling, hindering, lingering, dawdling, trudging, delaying, retarding, loitering, plodding, creeping

impelling, pushing, firing, inspiring, striking, energizing, urging, forcing, jogging, jolting, stimulating, inducing, bumping, shoving, motivating, goading, pitching, fermenting, enticing, knocking, fomenting, prompting, encouraging, moving, ramming, magnetizing, hurtling, slinging, flinging, nudging, provoking, jerking, driving, instigating, launching, shooting, hastening, lobbing, prodding, triggering, heaving, thrusting, hurling, catapulting, propelling, jostling, throwing

Usage examples:

• On the landing stage, Ray was already in the 'copter, poking at buttons on the board. - "Null-ABC", Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire.
• Neale was dancing in front of a big turtle and poking it with his stick to keep it from descending the beach to the sea. - "The Corner House Girls on Palm Island", Grace Brooks Hill Thelma Gooch.
• " You see," went on Bessie, poking at the sod wall with the stick she held in her hand, " perhaps in this place you might be putting an exaggerated value on me. - "Jess", H. Rider Haggard.