poking

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: pok=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

poking, a. 

 Drudging; servile.  [1913 Webster]
"Bred to some poking profession."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

poking

ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, delving, digging, easy, faltering, fishing, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, in search of, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, loaded for bear, looking for, lumbering, moderate, nosy, out for, out for bear, poky, probing, prying, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, searching, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, waddling