Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To push; kick. Halliwell. [North. Eng.] To plait. See
poke , 6. - To creep about listlessly or moodily; poke.
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- verb obsolete To
push ,thrust . - verb To
poke (with a stick etc.).
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Financial Supervisory Service official said Wednesday the financial watchdog will focus primarily on whether banks are setting aside enough provisions for real estate project-financing loans to ensure that they are adequately prepared for pote ntial loan losses.
South Korea to Inspect Banks' Loan Quality Se Young Lee 2011
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"Based on my lifetime of experience — and one particularly relevant day — bird strikes can have a pote ntially catastrophic effect on our aircraft."
Pilots Union in Shift on Garbage Plant Andy Pasztor 2011
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Fri 03/12/10 12: 26 PM you have a grat pote i ahve a litte gile of my own she love her doll and now she can bring her dll alve thax you
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I wouldn't vote for Plain just because I'm sick of seeing the name Palin .. pote
Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail 2009
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He said the company can't sell or negotiate with pote ntial buyers of the stake under the current shareholders '"standstill" agreement, which expires at the end of December.
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The combination of cynicism from a revolution gone bad and fear of a pote ...
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The combination of cynicism from a revolution gone bad and fear of a pote ...
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You could easily be making $4 – 6000 a month, but your income pote …
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World's oldest animation, 5,200 years old Um pote é um pote, um objecto que normalmente vemos como inanimado e estático.
Leituras Artur 2008
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J'veux dire qu'ils peuvent pas s'blairer entre deux quartier OKI, qu'ils vengent leur pote qui s'est pris une balle dans la tete ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
Dan337 commented on the word pote
Thus potable doesn’t mean “able to be poted”. A clue to the discrepancy may be found at potate.
I wanted to work in a joke using the word [potatable, but I just don’t have time.]
September 4, 2011