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Poring vs Poking - What's the difference?

poring | poking |

As verbs the difference between poring and poking

is that poring is while poking is .

As nouns the difference between poring and poking

is that poring is the act of one who pores while poking is the act by which something is poked.

poring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pores.
  • * 1833 , Oliver Moore, The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune
    • During my porings over a volume of the former for 1794, I fell upon a paragraph which caused such a sudden perturbation in my whole appearance, as to excite the curiosity of the surgeon

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    poking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is poked.
  • *
    • perfunctory proddings and pokings