adjective
1. [snake, etc.] emmetzinador, verinós.
2. [substance, fumes, etc.] tòxic.
3. figurative [damaging] perjudicial, perniciós.
4. [very bad] horrible, horrorós.
5. this poisonous propaganda aquesta propaganda perniciosa.
6. the play was poisonous l'obra va ser horrorosa.
7. he's a poisonous individual és un individu perniciós.

noun
1. [push] empenta.
2. [with elbow] cop de colze.
3. [jab] punxada, burxada.
4. [with poker] atiament.
5. to give the fire a poke atiar el foc.
6. to give someone a poke in the ribs clavar un cop de colze a les costelles d'algú.
7. to give someone a poke with a bayonet clavar la baioneta a algú.
transitive verb
8. [push] empènyer.
9. [fire] atiar, reanimar, avivar.
10. to poke someone in the ribs clavar un cop de colze a les costelles d'algú.
11. to poke someone in the ribs with a stick burxar-li les costelles a algú amb un bastó.
12. to poke a stick into a crack ficar un bastó en un badall.
13. to poke a rag into a tube entatxonar un drap en un tub.
14. to poke a stick into the ground plantar un bastó a terra.
15. to poke someone's eye out treure-li un ull a algú.
16. to poke a hole in a picture fer un trep en un quadre.
17. to poke one's head out treure el cap, abocar-se.
intransitive verb
18. to poke something with a stick (agitar \ sacsejar) alguna cosa amb un bastó.


19. to poke (about \ around) escorcollar, encercar, escodrinyar.
20. (idem) pejorative tafanejar, ficar el nas pertot, xafardejar.
21. we spent a day poking about in the shops vam passar-nos un dia remenant per les botigues.
22. and now you come poking about i ara comences a tafanejar.
23. to poke into someone's business entremetre's en els afers d'altri.



Vegeu també:
poke²

noun
1. [sack] sac, bossa.
2. to buy a pig in a poke see pig.
3. to sell someone a pig in a poke see pig.



Vegeu també:
poke¹

noun furga, burxa, atiador.


Vegeu també:
poker²

noun
1. Cards pòquer.
2. to have a poker face tenir una cara inescrutable, ésser una esfinx.
3. he looks as if he had swallowed a poker sembla que s'hagi empassat un pal semaler.



Vegeu també:
poker¹

adjective
1. de cara (inescrutable \ impassible).
2. they looked on poker-faced van mirar impassibles.

adjective
1. [room] esquifit, petit, exigu.
2. a poky little room una cambra petita com un niu.

proper noun Geography Polònia.

adjective polar.

noun os (blanc \ polar).