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pokingly

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Etymology

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From poking +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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pokingly (comparative more pokingly, superlative most pokingly)

  1. So as to poke out or protrude.
    • GMW Wemyss, Markham Shaw Pyle, The Transatlantic Disputations: Essays and Meditations
      [] the 1975 InterCity poster consisting simply of a Page Three girl, wearing a shirt and a hat and nothing else, bra-less (and this is clamantly, pokingly evident) []
  2. (dated) In a drudging, servile manner.
    • 1848, William Hemsley Emory, Notes of Military Reconnaissance:
      We arose when the first streak of grey light appeared in the east, and, without stopping to prepare our breakfast, we resumed our toilsome march. The poor starved and thirsty mules plodded pokingly along, in rather a doleful plight.

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