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poky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun poky has 1 sense
- poky(n = noun.artifact) clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, slammer - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence); Array has particulars: bastille, holding cell, hoosegow, hoosgow, house of correction, lockup, workhouse
is a kind of correctional institution
Adjective poky has 2 senses
- poky(s = adj.all) dilatory, laggard, pokey - wasting time; Array Derived form noun poke2
- poky(s = adj.all) jerkwater, one-horse, pokey - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
CIDE DICTIONARY
poky, a. [Written also pokey.].
- Confined; cramped. [1913 Webster]
- Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
poky, adj. (pokier, pokiest) (of a room etc.) small and cramped.
Derivative
pokily adv. pokiness n.
Etymology
POKE(1) (in colloq. sense 'confine') + -Y(1)
THESAURUS
poky
abject, abominable, ambling, arid, arrant, atrocious, banausic, barren, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blah, blank, bloodless, blowzy, careless, cautious, characterless, cheesy, chintzy, circumspect, claudicant, cold, colorless, contemptible, cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crummy, dead, debased, degraded, deliberate, depraved, despicable, dilapidated, dim, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dismal, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, easy, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, execrable, exiguous, fade, faltering, flagging, flagrant, flat, foot-dragging, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gentle, gradual, grave, gross, grubby, half-pint, halting, heavy, heinous, ho-hum, hobbled, hobbling, hollow, humdrum, idle, in rags, inane, indolent, inexcitable, informal, insipid, jejune, jerkwater, knee-high, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lifeless, limited, limping, little, loose, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumbering, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, moderate, monotone, monotonous, monstrous, mussy, nefarious, negligent, niggling, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, pale, pallid, paltry, pedestrian, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, plodding, pointless, poking, ponderous, poor, punk, puny, ragged, raggedy, rank, relaxed, reluctant, reptilian, ruinous, sauntering, scabby, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short, shuffling, slack, slatternly, slight, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slovenly, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, sluttish, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, sordid, spiritless, squalid, staggering, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strolling, stuffy, superficial, tacky, tasteless, tattered, tedious, tentative, tinhorn, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, two-bit, two-by-four, unhurried, unkempt, unlively, unmentionable, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vapid, vile, waddling, wooden, wretched
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