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Poky   /pˈoʊki/   Listen
Poky

adjective
1.
Wasting time.  Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, pokey.
2.
Small and remote and insignificant.  Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey.  "Passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"





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"Poky" Quotes from Famous Books



... fairly gone, Longclawse, the eldest, said, 'Seems to me, brothers, we have stood this long enough. All the other cubs in the wood can run about as they please, and why should we be kept in this poky old cave? Suppose we try to get away the big log before the door?' for this was what Grumpy-growly put up ...
— Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First - Being the First Book • Sarah L Barrow


Words linked to "Poky" :   bastille, correctional institution, poke, lockup, hoosegow, house of correction, hoosgow, provincial, slow, workhouse, holding cell


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