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Stoked vs Stoke - What's the difference?

stoked | stoke |

As verbs the difference between stoked and stoke

is that stoked is past tense of stoke while stoke is to poke, pierce, thrust.

As an adjective stoked

is feeling excitement or an exciting rush.

As a noun stoke is

misspelling of lang=en A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per millilitre.

As a proper noun Stoke is

stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.

stoked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stoke)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Feeling excitement or an exciting rush.
  • * 1964 , '', 3 December 1964. Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI, end of section 2, page 255.
  • When you're driving hard and fast down the wall, with the soup curling behind yer, or doing this backside turn on a big one about to tube, it's just this feeling. Yer know, it leaves yer feeling stoked .

    stoke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stoken, from (etyl) , from the same Germanic source. More at (l).

    Verb

    (stok)
  • To poke, pierce, thrust.
  • Etymology 2

    From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from (etyl) stoker, from (etyl) , see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above.

    Verb

    (stok)
  • To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
  • To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
  • To stick; to thrust; to stab.
  • * Chaucer
  • Nor short sword for to stoke , with point biting.
    Derived terms
    * stokehole

    Etymology 3

    (wikipedia stoke) Misconstruction of stokes

    Noun

    (head)
  • (physics) (A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per millilitre)
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