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PokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Clipping of Pokémon
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗pokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach. Compare Nordic cognates Swedish påka (“to poke, muck with a stick”), påk (“club, limb; dagger”), pykel (“small poker”), dialectal Norwegian pauka (“to walk stomping, etc”), pauk (“weak, slow person”). Central European noun-cognates refer to “dagger, bad knife, poker (for a fireplace)”, with analog verbs. To a Proto-Germanic *pauk-, *puk-, meaning, “to stick, muck with a stick”.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗pokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket. Doublet of pouch. First attested in the early 13th c.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗pokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Clipping of pocan (“pokeweed”) or directly borrowed from Powhatan pocan. See pocan for more.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗pokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Borrowed from Hawaiian poke (literally “to cut crosswise into pieces”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- PokeEnglish · e-38699-3476
Poke, pōk, n. a bag: a pouch.—A pig in a poke, a blind bargain, as of a pig bought without being seen. [Prob. Celt., as Ir. poc, a bag.]
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Poke, pōk, v.t. to thrust or push against with something pointed: to search for with a long instrument: to thrust at with the horns.—v.i. to grope or feel, as in the dark.—n. act of pushing or thrusting: a thrust: a bonn
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