Translations for „poking“ in the English » Portuguese Dictionary

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I . poke [poʊk, Brit pəʊk] N

poke (push)

empurrão m

poke (with elbow)

cotovelada f

II . poke [poʊk, Brit pəʊk] VB trans

poke

espetar

poke (with finger, elbow)

cutucar

poke a fire

atiçar

to poke a hole in sth

abrir espaço empurrando a. c.

to poke holes in an argument

apontar o pontos fracos de um argumento

to poke one's nose into sb's business

meter o nariz onde não se é chamado

to poke fun at sb

zombar de alguém

III . poke [poʊk, Brit pəʊk] VB intr

to poke around (in sth)

escarafunchar (a. c.)

to poke around (in sth)

remexer (em a. c.)

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English

There are concrete pads at both ends of the strip, but these are badly deteriorated with rebar poking up from the surface.

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Poking our heads through a swing door, we are greeted by a mass of culinary humanity confined to a long narrow space.

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Ears of corn are peering from their sedgy stems, and delicate blossoms of red and white hibiscus are poking out from their spindly branches.

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He appears shrunken, scrawny in the way pensioners sometimes do, his head poking out from his shirt collar like the head of a tortoise.

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They lie in wait buried by sand, with only their eyes poking out from the substrate.

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It woke her up every morning, poking its nose at the bedcovers.

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She had taught him to play cribbage, poking fun at his early mistakes.

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Although the show was in fact poking fun at right-wing bigotry, not everyone got the joke.

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Poking from the shopping bag is a milk bottle, and on the newspaper is a sparrow and a piece of bread.

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Back in the living room, the other guy is absently poking at his phone.

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