poke borack

present singular third person pokes borack · participle present poking borack · participle past poked borack · past poked borack · alternative poke borak · alternative poke borax

1. AustraliaintransitiveoftenTo 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

   Synonyms: lead on, lead someone down the garden path, poke mullock

2. AustraliaintransitiveoftenTo ridicule.

   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

   3 more examples

   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

   ‘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

   Synonyms: chiack, jeer, mock