Dictionary Definition
poking n : a sharp hand gesture (resembling a
blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a
thrusting motion with his fist" [syn: jab, jabbing, poke, thrust, thrusting]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
poking- present participle of poke
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail,
deliberate, delving, digging, easy, faltering, fishing, flagging, foot-dragging,
gentle, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, in search of, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, loaded for bear,
looking for, lumbering, moderate, nosy, out for, out for bear,
poky, probing, prying, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, searching, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as
molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going,
slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running,
slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, waddling