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Poke fun   /poʊk fən/   Listen
verb
Poke  v. t.  (past & past part. poked; pres. part. poking)  
1.
To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire. "He poked John, and said "Sleepest thou?""
2.
To thrust with the horns; to gore.
3.
To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox. (Colloq. U. S.)
To poke fun, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. (Colloq.)
To poke fun at, to make a butt of; to ridicule. (Colloq.)





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"Poke fun" Quotes from Famous Books



... poke fun at me if you want to," said Grandaddy Beaver, "but I'm a-going right ahead and make my house as strong as I can. For when the freshet gets here I don't want my home ...
— The Tale of Brownie Beaver • Arthur Scott Bailey
... be mum now, no givin' orders to your poor overworked hired help in your brick-fields, not lettin' 'em have even a straw that they begged for to lighten their burden. The descendants of them folks you driv round can stand here and poke fun at you all day and you've got to keep your mouth shet. Yes," sez he, "you've got to a place now where you can't be yellin' out your orders, you've got to be mum, ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
... The doctor had one annoying habit—imagined he had the right to poke fun at everybody simply because he was a doctor. "The man's riddled with conceit, like ...
— In a German Pension • Katherine Mansfield
... propensity to poke fun. "I have been detailed for that service for more than two years. Moreover, I was a good enough scout to pass within the lines of your army to-night, and to travel the whole length ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish
... the conclusion that the whole article was really intended to poke fun at the generally received notion that the author of the plays was an unlettered man, who picked up his knowledge at tavern doors and in taprooms and tennis courts. I would specially refer to the passage where Bacon asks "How frame you such interlocutors as Brutus and Coriolanus?" ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... superficial sense of the word; at the same time a separation does not meet the case, as it is always possible that a man or woman may wish to take the matrimonial plunge again. Chesterton seems to think it is amusing to poke fun at those who are sensible enough to wish to make lunacy a sufficient ground for divorce. 'The process' he says, 'might begin by releasing somebody from a homicidal maniac and end by dealing with a rather dull conversationalist.' He might have ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke
... sake," he said naively. "It is because I don't want people to poke fun at me, even if I ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez


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