English

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Noun

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poake (plural poakes)

  1. Obsolete form of poke.

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Etymology

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From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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poake

  1. poke, pocket
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 34:
      Dhicka poake.
      That pocket.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62