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  • verb intransitive, Australia, New Zealand To impart false information in an attempt to mislead.
  • verb intransitive, Australia, New Zealand To ridicule.

Etymologies

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From poke borak or poke borack, probably by substitution of the unfamiliar word, by the law of Hobson-Jobson.

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