Слово "poke". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

It was, of course, proper and even pleasant to have her grief so much respected; but she did wish Sam hadn’t to be poked always into taking the initiative.

began poking at the buttons and banging on the door, saying,

He tore out the stem and began to poke about in the water, while the brilliant fish flicked away on this side and that.

Men dressed in brown velveteen trousers and coats, with broad- brimmed, soft-felt hats on their heads and long clay pipes in their mouths, strode ahead of their vraws, attired in black, with thick black veils and large black-silk poke bonnets.

Amy followed, but she poked her hands out stiffly before her, and jerked herself along as if she went by machinery, and her

"You've got no goddamn right to go poking around my-"

Poirot continued to wander about, poking into rooms and cupboards with a profoundly dissatisfied expression on his face.

Something fine and mistily gold began to poke through a corner; she attacked the paper faster, peeling it away in long, ragged strips.

... cold to the marrow of my bones. I could _see_ the chill from the dead room crawling underneath the door, and creeping up about his bed, and reaching out its hand to touch his heart. "Jeanie and I redoubled our efforts, for it seemed to us as if Death were waiting just outside in the passage, watching with his eye at the keyhole for either of us to make a blunder and let the truth slip out. I hardly ever left his side except now and again to go into that next room, and poke an imaginary fire, and say a few chaffing words to an imaginary living woman on the bed where the dead one lay; and Jeanie sat close to the corpse, and called out saucy messages to him, or reassuring answers to his anxious questions. "At times, knowing that if we stopped another moment in these rooms we should scream, we would steal softly out and rush downstairs, and, shutting ourselves out of hearing in a cellar underneath the yard, laugh till we reeled against the dirty walls. I think we were both getting a little ...

She poked in the back of this bottom drawer to see what else might be lurking in there.

Always poking around for moth-holes in your best suit, and finding one more often than not.

"Jim," she said: she spoke very low, and the boy had to bend over her to hear, "if you poke about in the middle of the mattress you'll find a couple of pounds.

The pig-run filled with shouting boys again, Jack came running back, and poked about in the undergrowth.

He wanted to see the new green of the rushes by the water's edge poking up through the dead stuff.

"Why don’t you poke him?" Brissenden asked. "I’d give a thousand dollars to have my lungs back for five minutes."