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Stoked vs Stroking - What's the difference?

stoked | stroking |

As verbs the difference between stoked and stroking

is that stoked is (stoke) while stroking is .

As an adjective stoked

is (slang) feeling excitement or an exciting rush.

As a noun stroking is

the act by which something is stroked.

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 .

    stroking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is stroked.
  • * Milton
    • I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears.
  • (textiles) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.
    • (Webster 1913)