Modifies a noun

• room: They stay in a pokey room where Victor keeps banging his head on the ceiling whenever he stands.

• shop: But for a moment inside the pokey shop, the current of debate swirled angrily around Afghanistan's amiable leader, Hamid Karzai.

• stick: Things went smoothly until the roof spontaneously started to spit pebbles at us, so we beat a retreat to fetch the pokey stick.

• apartment: The penthouse suite is a pokey little apartment which the friend shares with a few mates, including an illegal Indian alien.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: The entrance lobby is unusual and, frankly, rather pokey, but it's probably very effective at keeping the drafts out.

• pretty: This worked much better and ' Thirteen ' is pretty pokey.

Noun used with modifier

• hokey: Many were sent North to Scotland where they were then given a barrow and became ' hokey pokey ' men.