poke around

as inpursue
as instraggle
as inbeat the bushes

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Word Origin & History

"to push, prod, thrust," especially with something pointed, c.1300, puken "to poke, nudge," of uncertain origin, perhaps from or related to Middle Dutch poken "to poke" (Dutch beuken), or Middle Low German poken "to stick with a knife" (cf. German pochen "to knock, rap"), both from Proto-Germanic root *puk-, perhaps imitative. Related: Poked; poking. To poke fun "tease" first attested 1840; to poke around "search" is from 1809. To poke along "advance lazily; walk at a leisurely pace" is from 1833.

Example Sentences forpoke around

Why should one poke around a church, especially at night and this night?

I can see to everything, and it will give me a good chance to poke around.

As Lookouts we must poke around and find some good use for our money.

But we don't want to make too much fuss; it won't do no good to poke around in a nest of rattlers.

Jerrys resolve to poke around and stir up something did not meet with any special success.

But they wouldn't find out much, even if they had six hours to poke around our shop in, would they, Frank?

I think it's so much fun to poke around the first day and see how everybody is fixed.

"I'd like to poke around the bottom of the lagoon a little," said Terry, with unconscious grimness.

So he started to poke around, hoping to run across some island that was more than a mere patch of the omnipresent mangrove tangle.

He picked up a stake lying beside the platform and began to poke around beneath it.

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