Difference between Pry and Poke

PRY vs POKE: NOUN

A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
An excessively inquisitive person
The act of prying
Leverage.
A lever.
The pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.
A lever; also, leverage.
Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
A large lever employed to raise or move heavy substances; a prize.
One who pries; a prier; an inquisitive, intrusive person (with allusion to Paul Pry, a fictitious name which, in its turn, was evidently suggested by this sense of the word).
A peeping glance; peering; curious or narrow inspection.
Something, such as a crowbar, that is used to apply leverage.

A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.
A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.
A bonnet with a straight, projecting front.
A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
(boxing) a blow with the fist
A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
A bag; a sack; a pocket.
A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
The act of poking; a thrust; a jog.
Same as pokeweed or garget.
A pocket; a pouch; a bag; a sack.
A large, wide, bag-like sleeve formerly in vogue. Same as poke-sleeve.
A bag or bladder filled with air and used by fishermen as a buoy.
The stomach or swimming-bladder of a fish.
A lazy person; a dawdler.
A sort of collar or ox-bow from the lower part of which a short pole projects, placed about the neck of a cow or steer in order to prevent it from jumping fences.
A poke-bonnet.
A gentle thrust or push, especially with something long or pointed; a prod; a dig.
A large bonnet having a projecting brim.
A projecting brim at the front of a bonnet.
A sack; a bag.
Pokeweed.
A cock, as of hay.
One who moves slowly or aimlessly; a dawdler.
A punch or blow with the fist.
A push, thrust, or jab.
A customary unit of weight for wool, 20 hundredweight.
Scrofula.
The small green heron more fully called shitepoke.
In cricket: A cramped, timid batting stroke.
A batsman who plays in a cramped, over-cautious style.
(that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it.
A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (Phytolacca decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

PRY vs POKE: VERB

Make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)
To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
To look closely and curiously at, peep
Search or inquire in a meddlesome way
Be nosey

Make a hole by poking
Stir by poking
Search or inquire in a meddlesome way
Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
Poke or thrust abruptly

PRY vs POKE: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To look or inquire closely, curiously, or impertinently.
To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.

To proceed in a slow or lazy manner; putter.
To pry or meddle; intrude.
To make thrusts or jabs, as with a stick or poker.
To strike; punch.
To stir (a fire) by prodding the wood or coal with a poker or stick.
To push; thrust.
To make (a hole or pathway, for example) by or as if by prodding, elbowing, or jabbing.
To push or jab at, as with a finger or an arm; prod.
To search or look curiously in a desultory manner.
To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope.
To thrust forward; appear.

PRY vs POKE: TRANSITIVE VERB

To obtain with effort or difficulty.
To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
To raise, move, or force open with a lever.

PRY vs POKE: OTHER WORD TYPES

To raise or move by means of a pry; prize; bring into a desired position or condition by means of a pry: as, to pry a box open.
To look closely or with scrutinizing curiosity; hence, to search curiously or impertinently into any matter; peer; peep.
To observe; note.

To grope; search; feel or push one's way in or as in the dark; also, to move to and fro; dawdle.
To put a poke on: as, to poke an ox or a pig. See poke, n., 3. [U. S.] To set the plaits of (a ruff).
To force as if by thrusting; urge; incite.
To thrust or push.
To push gently; jog.
To thrust or push against; prod, especially with something long or pointed; prod and stir up: as, to poke a person in the ribs.
In cricket, to bat in a cramped, over-cautious style.
To stoop or bend forward in walking.
Berries and root are poisonous
Young fleshy stems are edible
Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Someone who lags behind
(idiom) (poke fun at) To ridicule in a mischievous manner.

PRY vs POKE: RELATED WORDS

Eject, Lift, Remove, Snoop, Extract, Pull, Prise, Wrecking bar, Prize, Nose, Lever, Jimmy, Pry bar, Crowbar, Poke

Pound, Sack, Thrust, Biff, Nose, Punch, Thrusting, Jab, Thump, Jabbing, Lick, Pry, Stab, Dig, Prod

PRY vs POKE: DESCRIBE WORDS

Frisk, Raise, Detach, Compel, Meddle, Eject, Remove, Snoop, Extract, Pull, Prize, Nose, Lever, Jimmy, Poke

Carrier bag, Pound, Sack, Thrust, Nose, Punch, Thrusting, Jab, Thump, Jabbing, Lick, Pry, Stab, Dig, Prod

PRY vs POKE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRY AND POKE

PRY vs POKE: NOUN

PRY vs POKE: VERB

PRY vs POKE: INTRANSITIVE VERB

PRY vs POKE: TRANSITIVE VERB

PRY vs POKE: OTHER WORD TYPES

PRY vs POKE: RELATED WORDS

PRY vs POKE: DESCRIBE WORDS

PRY vs POKE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

PRY vs POKE: QUESTIONS