poke borax

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

poked borax pokes borax 三单 pokes borax poking borax poking borax 现在分词 poked borax 过去式 poked borax 过去分词

别名

poke borack poke borak poke the borax

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To ridicule.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 不及物

    1975, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 3399, Hon. S. J. Faulkner—You see, as long as the people concerned are not political, it is O.K. But members opposite want to poke borax at people who dare to have a different view from that of the Leader of the Opposition.

    1991, Maud Cahill, Christine Dann (editors), Changing Our Lives: Women Working in the Women′s Liberation Movement, 1970-1990, Bridget Williams Books, New Zealand, page 74, It was an acceptable way of poking borax at unions for being so bloody backward.

词源

From poke borak or poke borack, probably by substitution of the unfamiliar word, by the law of Hobson-Jobson.

来源：wiktionary