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Poke vs Lash - What's the difference?

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Poke is a related term of lash.


As verbs the difference between poke and lash

is that poke is to prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick while lash is to strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one or lash can be to bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

As nouns the difference between poke and lash

is that poke is (us|slang) a lazy person; a dawdler or poke can be or poke can be (dialectal) pokeweed while lash is the thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

As an adjective lash is

(obsolete) remiss, lax.

poke

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from (etyl) poken or (etyl) poken (both from (etyl) ), perhaps imitative.

Verb

(pok)
  • To prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Ward showed good pace to beat the advancing Reina to the ball and poke a low finish into the corner.}}
  • To poke a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
  • (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
  • (computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
  • * 1984 , Franco Frey, SPECGRAFFITI'' (in ''Crash magazine, issue 6, July 1984)
    • The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics.
  • * 1985 , Tom Weishaar, Bert Kersey, The DOStalk Scrapbook (page 44)
    • If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error.
  • To put a poke on.
    • to poke an ox
  • To thrust with the horns; to gore.
  • (informal, internet) To notify.
  • (label) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
    • Derived terms
    {{der3, poke along , poke bonnet , poke box , poke fun , toepoke}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
  • (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
    • (Bartlett)
  • (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
  • (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
  • * 1988 , "Lloyd Mangram", Forum'' (in ''Crash magazine issue 54, July 1988)
    • Perhaps all those super hackers who so regularly produce infinite lives etc. could produce pokes to be used by 128K users.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) poke, whence pocket

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * c. 1386 , , The Canterbury Tales'', ''The Miller's Prologue and Tale :
    • Gerveys answerde, “Certes, were it gold,
    Or in a poke nobles alle untold,
    Thou sholdest have, as I am trewe smyth.
  • * c. 1599 , , As You Like It , act 2, scene 7:
    • And then he drew a dial from his poke ,
    And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
    Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock…’
  • * 1605 , , Remaines Concerning Brittaine'', 1629 edition, ''Proverbes , page 276:
    • When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke .
  • * 1627 , , Minor Poems of Michael Drayton'', 1907 edition, poem ''Nimphidia :
    • And suddainly vntyes the Poke ,
    Which out of it sent such a smoke,
    As ready was them all to choke,
    So greeuous was the pother [...].
  • * 1814 , September 4, The Examiner'', volume 13, number 349, article ''French Fashions , page 573:
    • … and as to shape , a nightmare has as much. Under the poke and the muff-box, the face sometimes entirely disappears …
  • * 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 91:
    • In the summertime they'd reach out and snatch your straw hat right off your head, and if you were fool enough to go after it your poke was bound to be lighter when you came out.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 138:
    • She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black.
  • A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
    • Derived terms
    * buy a pig in a poke * pocket

    Etymology 3

    Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, (quod vide).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) Pokeweed.

    • Synonyms

    * see the list at (pokeweed)

    lash

    English

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Noun

    (es)
  • The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
    • I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
  • (label) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
  • A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
  • A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
  • * (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
    • The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
  • A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
  • In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
  • In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night)

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
    • We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. —
  • To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
    • the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
    And big waves lash the frighted shores. —
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.}}
  • To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
    • He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. —
  • To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
    • to lash vice
  • To ply the whip; to strike.
  • To utter censure or sarcastic language.
    • To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. —
  • (of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.}}

    See also

    * lash out

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lachier, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
    • to lash something to a spar
    lash a pack on a horse's back
    (to bind with a rope) * Finnish: (trans-mid) * Jèrriais: (t) (trans-bottom)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lasche'' (French '' ).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
  • (obsolete) Relaxed.
  • Soft, watery, wet.
  • * 1658': Fruits being unwholesome and '''lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
  • (Ulster) excellent, wonderful
    • ''We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash !
    That Chinese (food) was lash !
  • Drunk.