stoked
[stohkt]
- exhilarated; excited.
- intoxicated or stupefied with a drug; high.
Origin of stoked
stoke1
[stohk]
- to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- to tend the fire of (a furnace, especially one used with a boiler to generate steam for an engine); supply with fuel.
- to shake up the coals of a fire.
- to tend a fire or furnace.
Origin of stoke1
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Contemporary Examples
I was stoked that we were able to get together to put out Rkives.
Jenny Lewis on 'The Voyager,' the End of Rilo Kiley, and High School Classmate Angelina JolieMarlow Stern
August 17, 2014
The Blue Jasmine director also addresses the rumor Ronan Farrow is not his son, stoked by Farrow himself.
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February 8, 2014
Twitter and other social media have stoked fan loyalty, Sloane says.
For decades now, hawks like Kristol and groups like AIPAC have stoked American Jewish fears of a second Holocaust.
Pope Francis's trip to Brazil this week has captured hearts and minds as well as stoked pride among officialdom in Rio de Janeiro.
Historical Examples
The fire had been stoked in his absence, and was now burning gloriously.
Mary GrayKatharine Tynan
The fireman threw open the furnace-door and stoked the fire as we approached.
Aladdin & Co.Herbert Quick
Then he stoked the fire, blew it, and set them all round it to warm themselves.
Grimms' Fairy TalesThe Brothers Grimm
He lighted up the furnace with dry wood, then stoked it full of coal.
Darkness and DawnGeorge Allan England
In one case he stoked the furnaces of a coal mine for a week.
A Captain in the RanksGeorge Cary Eggleston
stoked
- NZ informal very pleased; elatedreally stoked to have got the job
stoke
- to feed, stir, and tend (a fire, furnace, etc)
- (tr) to tend the furnace of; act as a stoker for
See also stoke up
Word Origin
C17: back formation from stoker
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Word Origin and History for stoked
stoke
v.
1650s (implied in stoker), "to feed and stir up a fire in a fireplace," from Dutch stoken "to stoke," from Middle Dutch stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from Proto-Germanic *stok-, variant of *stik-, *stek- "pierce, prick" (see stick (v.)). Stoked "enthusiastic" recorded in surfer slang by 1963, but the extension of the word to persons is older:
Having "stoked up," as the men called it, the brigades paraded at 10.30 a.m., ready for the next stage of the march. ["Cassell's History of the Boer War," 1901]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
stoke
(stōk)
- A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per milliliter.
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