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pokingadjective moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speedthe poking pace of the repair work has put everything way behind schedule crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poky(or pokey), slow, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, tardy, unhurried deliberate, measuredinactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounginglingering, loitering, tarryingambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footedstrollingdecelerating, slowingfilibustering, procrastinating, stalling barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, quickenedhurried, rushed pokingverbpresent participle of poketo extend outward beyond a usual pointsaw his head poking through the window bagging, ballooning, beetling, bellying, billowing, bulging, bunching, jutting, overhanging, pooching(chiefly dialect), pouching, pouting, projecting, protruding, standing out, starting, sticking out, swelling domingblowing up, inflatingdilating, distending, expandingmushrooming, snowballingelongating, extending, lengthening, stretching compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting, shrinking to interest oneself in what is not one's concerntold him to stop poking into other people's business butting in, interfering, interloping, intermeddling, intruding, meddling, messing, mucking (about or around), nosing, obtruding, prying, snooping interceding, interposing, interveningbarging (in), chiseling (in)(or chiselling (in)), encroaching, infringing, invading, trespassingfiddling, fooling, monkeying, playing, tampering avoiding, eschewing, shunningdisregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking to move or act slowlyjust poked around all morning and didn't accomplish much crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, shilly-shallying, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking to move slowlythey were just poking along home crawling, creaking (along), creeping, dragging, inching, limping, nosing, oozing, plodding, slouching, snailing lumbering, shambling, shuffling, tramping, trudging flying, racing, speeding, whizzing, zipping floating, gliding, sailinghurrying, tearing |