poking
/ˈpoʊkɪŋ/ adjective C2- drudging; servile
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I’m hoping we will get our work done before they get poking their noses into it and messing up all the trails.
“That may make me feel badly tomorrow, Josie,” laughed Anne, “but just now I honestly feel that as long as I know the violets are coming out all purple down in the hollow below Green Gables and that little ferns are poking their heads up in Lovers’ Lane, it’s not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not.
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