I was stoked that we were able to get together to put out Rkives.
The Blue Jasmine director also addresses the rumor Ronan Farrow is not his son, stoked by Farrow himself.
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.
The fire had been stoked in his absence, and was now burning gloriously.
The fireman threw open the furnace-door and stoked the fire as we approached.
Then he stoked the fire, blew it, and set them all round it to warm themselves.
He lighted up the furnace with dry wood, then stoked it full of coal.
In one case he stoked the furnaces of a coal mine for a week.
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]
stoke (stōk)
n.
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.
adjective
Enthusiastic; happily surprised: Everyone's stoked that he's here and would he do a couple of tunes
[1963+; fr surfer talk]
