Meaning of pokingly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. So as to poke out or protrude.
2. In a drudging, servile manner.
   dated

Examples

“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) […]”

“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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