Poke vs Chop - What's the difference?

Poke is a related term of chop.

As nouns the difference between poke and chop

is that poke is (us|slang) a lazy person; a dawdler or poke can be or poke can be (dialectal) pokeweed while chop is garbage, trash can.

As a verb poke

is to prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick.

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.

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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)

chop

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) choppen, variant of (only attested in compounds). More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

*1957 , :

*:I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.

A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.

(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.

(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

Termination, especially from employment.

(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "chop")

Synonyms

* axe, pink slip, sack

Verb

To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

chop wood

chop an onion

To sever with an axe or similar implement.

Chop off his head.

(baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.

(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.

To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

* L'Estrange

Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance.

To interrupt; with in'' or ''out .

* Latimer

This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.

Derived terms

* chop chop * chopper * chopping board * chop logic * chops * chopstick * choppy * karate chop * try out one's own chops

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of (chap).

Verb

(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan'' from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of ''commuting our penance.

* L'Estrange

We go on chopping and changing our friends.

To chap or crack.

(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.

The wind chops about.

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

* Francis Bacon

Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.

Noun

(en noun)

(mostly, in the plural) A jaw of an animal.

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.

East Chop'''; West '''Chop

A change; a vicissitude.

(Marryat)

Etymology 3

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

An official stamp or seal.

Mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.

silk of the first chop

Derived terms

* chop dollar * chop of tea * grand chop

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

(en noun)

(internet) An IRC channel operator.

* 1996 , Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (page 404)

IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops " — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.

Synonyms

* chanop * op ----