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pokey Definition

pokey ()

noun pl. pokeys pok′·eys or pokies pok′·ies

Slang a jail
also poky pok′y

Etymology: < ?

pokey Usage Examples

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.

Browse dictionary entries near pokey

  1. pokeweed
  2. pokeroot
  3. poker face
  4. poker
  5. poked
  6. pokeberry
  7. pokeberries
  8. poke fun at
  9. poke bonnet
  10. poke
  1. pokeys
  2. pokier
  3. pokies
  4. pokiest
  5. pokily
  6. pokiness
  7. poking
  8. poky
  9. pol
  10. Polack