[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

poke \poke\, v. t. imp.  p. p. poked; p. pr.  vb. n.
   poking. cf. lg. poken to prick, pierce, thrust, pok a
   dagger, knife, d. pook, g. pocken to beat, also ir. poc a
   blow, gael. puc to push.
   1. to thrust or push against or into with anything pointed;
      hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.
      1913 webster

            he poked john, and said "sleepest thou ?" --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. to thrust with the horns; to gore.
      1913 webster

   3. from 5th poke, 3. to put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.
      colloq. u. s.
      1913 webster

   to poke fun, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. colloq.

   to poke fun at, to make a butt of; to ridicule. colloq.
      1913 webster
see also:
poked poking poke to poke fun to poke fun at 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

poking \pok"ing\, a.
   drudging; servile. colloq.
   1913 webster

         bred to some poking profession.          --gray.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
jab jabbing poke thrust thrusting 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

72 moby thesaurus words for "poking":
   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

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