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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: To boy a pig a poke (0.01698 detik)
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Definition: To boy a pig a poke
Poke
\Poke\, n. [AS. poca, poha, pohha; akin to Icel. poki, OD.
poke, and perh. to E. pock; cf. also Gael. poca, and OF.
poque. Cf.
Pock,
Pocket,
Pouch.]
1. A bag; a sack; a pocket.
“He drew a dial from his poke.”
--Shak.
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They wallowed as pigs in a poke. --Chaucer.
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2. A long, wide sleeve; -- called also
poke sleeve.
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To boy a pig a poke (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing
without knowledge or examination of it. --Camden.
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