Poke mullock at (someone or something) Australia New Zealand old-fashioned verb phrase
To ridicule or make fun of someone or something
She didn’t seem to realize that we were poking mullock at her.
I poked mullock at Tom's bad haircut.
Stop poking mullock at his weight!
1. To mock someone or something.
2. To be annoying or unfair.
This idiom is used for physical or verbal attacks on the English.
To try a impossible, often ridiculous task
To make fun of someone/something.
To make a mocking sound or a playful gesture by pressing the tongue and lips together
The verb “poke" should be conjugated according to its tense.
In Middle English, mullock indicated ‘refuse or rubbish’, a sense which only survives in dialect usen. In Australian English, it came to be used of rock that either did not contain gold or from which the gold had been extracted, and it then developed the extended sense of ‘worthless information or nonsense’. This phrase dates from the early 20th century.
To do something in an unusual way
I guess I like to run against the grain in everything I do.