STOKE
What does "STOKE" mean?
To add fuel to a fire or furnace and keep it burning.
Meanings
- To feed and tend a fire to make it burn more strongly. He stoked the wood stove against the cold.
- To intensify or encourage a feeling, situation, or activity. The rumours only stoked public anger. figurative
- Extremely excited or enthusiastic; usually 'stoked'. I'm so stoked for the trip this weekend. informal
Word origin
A back-formation from 'stoker', borrowed from Dutch 'stoken' meaning to feed a fire or stoke a furnace.
Remember it
STOKE keeps a fire awake - picture the O as a glowing coal you keep poking back to life.
A little poem
One breath on the coals-
the dying orange remembers
it was once a flame.
haiku
Wordplay
- The surfer got a job tending the ship's furnace. He was, in every possible sense, stoked.
What it teaches
Fire and fervour answer to the same verb - what you keep feeding is what keeps burning.
Quick facts
What does STOKE mean?
To add fuel to a fire or furnace and keep it burning.
Is STOKE a valid word?
Yes — STOKE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is STOKE?
STOKE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does STOKE come from?
A back-formation from 'stoker', borrowed from Dutch 'stoken' meaning to feed a fire or stoke a furnace.
What can STOKE teach us?
Fire and fervour answer to the same verb - what you keep feeding is what keeps burning.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.