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poke borack en · VERB

Meanings

1. (Australia, intransitive, often, with "at") To impart false information in an attempt to mislead.
   • […]and say, “Come on, Towball old boy, you′re old ′partment′s a waitin′ for you, sheets aired, and everything right.” Oh! he′s a awful cove for to poke borack at a feller, that old O'Neil. 1888, Joseph Colin Francis Johnson, An Austral Christmas, page 10:
2. (Australia, intransitive, often, with "at") To ridicule.
   • ‘Well, sir,’ replied Peter, rather sheepishly, ‘you see, they′re always a-poking borack an′ a-chiackin′ o′ me over in the hut because I′ve never seed nothin′.[…]’ 1905, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip, and Other Stories, page 21:
   • Mr. Brown, a member of the deputation, stated that when a driver was in difficulties with his horse, drivers of traction engines, instead of helping, started "giggling and poking borak at us !" 1910, Evening Post, Congestion of traffic:
   • One toff, who fancied himself, still kept poking borack; but Steve stopped his chyacking pretty quick, for he hauled off and let him have it. 1885, Australasian Printers, editor, The Australasian Printers′ Keepsake, a Selection of Tales, Essays, Sketches, and Verse, by Victorian Compositors, page 154:
   • The Thames people have earned among the members of the House of Representatives a reputation of the champion cadgers of New Zealand, and it was too bad of their member, who knows it very well, to poke "borak" at them in that unfeeling way. 1881, Grey River Argus, [untitled article], page 2:

Forms

Synonyms

lead on (attempt to mislead) · lead someone down the garden path (attempt to mislead) · chiack (ridicule) · jeer (ridicule) · mock (ridicule) · poke mullock (attempt to mislead)