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fearraigh (170 words)
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Ugly Words, by veruca
bkerr's Words, by bkerr
Xuer's Words, by Xuer
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And through Facebook. I never said I liked it! ;-)
It's an...acquired taste, U. Mostly acquired through poverty.
No wonder I'm never hungry.
If only I'd known.
Context is everything, eh reesetee?
Aaaah! So when you poke someone on Facebook, you're actually giving them some of your tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes! Now I get it!
Actually, WeirdNET is correct on this one, at least if you're from the Southern US where poke (a.k.a. poke salad) is gathered and consumed as a green.
In Alaska, a small sack of gold is referred to as a poke, clearly having taken the name from the bag itself.
"He bought a poke of chips in a shop near Charing Cross and walked, eating them, up Bath Street." - 'Lanark', Alasdair Gray.
The meaning here appears to be bag.
A WeirdNET special :-)