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▪ I. pocky, n. Sc. dial.|ˈpəʊkɪ|
[f. pock, poke n.1 + -y, dim. suffix.]
A small ‘pock’ or bag.
1889Barrie Window in Thrums xx. 190 There's the pocky..ye gae me to keep the sewin' things in.
▪ II. pocky, a.1 Now rare.|ˈpɒkɪ|
[f. pock n. + -y.]
1. Full of or marked with pocks or pustules; spec. infected with the pox (i.e., usually, syphilis).
c1350Nominale Gall.-Angl. 198 (E.E.T.S.) Femme ad face verolee, Woman hath face pokky [MS. polky]. 1483Cath. Angl. 286/1 Pokky, porriginosus. 1530Tindale Pract. Prelates Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 313 Our fair young daughter was sent to the old pocky king of France, the year before our mortal enemy. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 47 b, The Dutchmen..spake shamefully of this mariage, that a feble old & pocky man should mary so fayre a lady. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 450 Under colour of giving physicke to their pockie patients. 1730Swift Lady's Dressing-room 134 To him that looks behind the scene, Statira's but some pocky queen. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 601 note, A healthy wet nurse, getting a sore nipple, in consequence of suckling a pocky child.
†b. As a coarse expression of reprobation or dislike, or merely intensive. In quot. 1601 as adv. (Cf. mangy.) Obs.
1598–9B. Jonson Case is Altered v. ii, Plaguy boy! he sooths his humour; these French villains have pocky wits. 1601Deacon & Walker Answ. Darrel 79 Were not this pockie good stuffe..to pester your Pulpit withall? a1619Fletcher Bonduca v. iii, Oh villain, pocky villain! 1663Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i, But that's his pocky humour.
2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a pock or pustule, or the pox (i.e., usually, syphilis; sometimes, small-pox); syphilitic or variolous.
1555Bradford in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. xlv. 135 With theyr pockeye plasteres and sores. 1600Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood ix. 15 But neuer in like pockie heate before. 1658A. Fox Würtz' Surg. ii. xviii. 129 Mercurial Ointment is good for lameness and pocky biles. 1752Phil. Trans. XLVII. 504 A pledgit dipp'd in the pocky matter was applied to the excoriated part. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 499 The pocky itch is so denominated from the resemblance of the pustules to minute small-pox. 1843Sir T. Watson Lect. Princ. Physic lxxxix. II. 781 This has needlessly been made a separate species of itch, scabies purulenta, pocky itch.
▪ III. pocky, a.2 Sc. local.
[f. pock, poke n.1 + -y.]
Characterized by having pokes or bags; baggy; popularly applied in Orkney to a form of cloud, called by some mammato-cumulus, the lower surface of which consists of an assemblage of rounded forms like small bags.
(Not in Eng. or general Sc. use.)
1862C. Clouston in A. Mitchell Pop. Weather Prognostics Scotl. 15, I first observed this kind of cloud (cumulous-like festoons of drapery) on 5th March 1822... When properly developed, it was always followed by a storm or gale within twenty-four hours. It is called ‘Pocky cloud’ by our [Orkney] sailors. 1867― Explan. Pop. Weather Progn. Scotl. Pref. 4 The festooned or pocky cloud. Ibid. 14. 1880 C. Ley in Nature XXI. 210/2 The clouds which have been in England [i.e. in Orkney] denominated ‘pocky clouds’. 1887Abercromby Weather iii. 78 In Orkney, this is known as the ‘pocky cloud’, and is there usually followed by a severe gale of wind. |