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Definition of poky in English: poky(also pokey) adjectivepokier, pokiest ˈpəʊkiˈpoʊki 1(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped. five of us shared the poky little room Example sentencesExamples - It's mainly a liberating process; I create shelf space in our poky house, I get to re-evaluate albums I'd forgotten about and I hopefully get some cash.
- Here we are, though, in a poky room that slopes quite dramatically towards the door.
- The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place.
- ‘I could have worked in the City, you know,’ he will tell them as he makes his way to the same pokey office he's been in for 20 years.
- So I followed the troops, got soaked on the way and eventually located a rather pokey meeting room where the government's great and good were already gathered.
- I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end.
- The pokey pub seemed to contain almost the whole of the village.
- I must confess I didn't realise it had been renovated - and I'd been avoiding it because in its previous incarnation, it was a slightly pokey cafeteria.
- The cottages had either been too small with pokey rooms and low ceilings or too small with too high a price and outbuildings beyond repair.
- Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town.
- The regulator and his staff operate from the third floor of a rather pokey building that resembles a cheap hotel.
- In a brilliant coup de theatre, we first see him in what appears to be a poky little confining room, which as the play starts, expands into a cosy living room decorated for Christmas.
- The place is small and pokey, with cramped rooms and straight, narrow pathways.
- After a gruelling day of standing staring into space, she returns to her poky apartment to make drawings, which she occasionally sells through an art dealer.
- This hit me hard, and I felt vulnerable in the poky hotel room with only the ticking time bomb of a box and the view of my sea for comfort.
- Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return?
- One year it's living in Malibu, the next year, it's being in plays in pokey theatres in London.
- At that moment, Daniel pulled into a small pokey café with petrol on the side of the motorway and made the bike bring to a standstill.
- Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
- Take a poky little room above a pub: there are more people on stage than there are in the audience.
Synonyms small, little, tiny cramped, confined, restricted, narrow, tight, uncomfortable, cell-like, boxy informal with no room to swing a cat euphemistic ‘compact’, ‘bijou’, ‘easy to maintain/clean’, ‘well planned’ archaic strait rare incommodious 2informal (especially of a car) having considerable power or acceleration. Example sentencesExamples - The cabin itself is a huge step forward on the previous model, which was pokey for a car of its overall dimensions.
3North American Annoyingly slow. his speech was poky, like he was a little simple Example sentencesExamples - With that much memory available there would be little reason for programs to constantly access that pokey old hard drive: Savvy apps could load just about everything into memory.
- No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’
- So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology.
- Now you can abandon your pokey, slow analog modem and step up to DSL's blazing access speeds.
- Now, if you want to get all the critical updates, but have a pokey old dialup connection, Microsoft wants to give you a CD shipped free of charge.
- Here, the worst incident of road rage is Roddy Murray flashing his brights at a pokey weekend driver.
- If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid.
Derivatives adverb noun When one of the trucks pulled over, I realized what was causing its pokiness. Example sentencesExamples - If we subtract the possible effects of leaky fuel tanks and space dust en route, the best explanation for this pokiness becomes magnetic interaction - in this case, with the Sun's field.
Origin Mid 19th century (in the sense 'concerned with petty matters'): from poke1 (in a contemporaneous sense 'confine') + -y1. Rhymes chokey, croaky, folkie, folky, hokey, hokey-cokey, hoki, jokey, karaoke, Loki, okey-dokey, Okie, pokey, smoky, trochee Definition of poky in US English: poky(also pokey) adjectiveˈpoʊkiˈpōkē 1North American Annoyingly slow or dull. I slept through his poky sermons Example sentencesExamples - So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology.
- No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’
- If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid.
- Here, the worst incident of road rage is Roddy Murray flashing his brights at a pokey weekend driver.
- Now, if you want to get all the critical updates, but have a pokey old dialup connection, Microsoft wants to give you a CD shipped free of charge.
- With that much memory available there would be little reason for programs to constantly access that pokey old hard drive: Savvy apps could load just about everything into memory.
- Now you can abandon your pokey, slow analog modem and step up to DSL's blazing access speeds.
2(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped. five of us shared the poky little room Example sentencesExamples - One year it's living in Malibu, the next year, it's being in plays in pokey theatres in London.
- The regulator and his staff operate from the third floor of a rather pokey building that resembles a cheap hotel.
- It's mainly a liberating process; I create shelf space in our poky house, I get to re-evaluate albums I'd forgotten about and I hopefully get some cash.
- Take a poky little room above a pub: there are more people on stage than there are in the audience.
- After a gruelling day of standing staring into space, she returns to her poky apartment to make drawings, which she occasionally sells through an art dealer.
- Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return?
- I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end.
- This hit me hard, and I felt vulnerable in the poky hotel room with only the ticking time bomb of a box and the view of my sea for comfort.
- The pokey pub seemed to contain almost the whole of the village.
- Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
- I must confess I didn't realise it had been renovated - and I'd been avoiding it because in its previous incarnation, it was a slightly pokey cafeteria.
- The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place.
- ‘I could have worked in the City, you know,’ he will tell them as he makes his way to the same pokey office he's been in for 20 years.
- Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town.
- The cottages had either been too small with pokey rooms and low ceilings or too small with too high a price and outbuildings beyond repair.
- At that moment, Daniel pulled into a small pokey café with petrol on the side of the motorway and made the bike bring to a standstill.
- So I followed the troops, got soaked on the way and eventually located a rather pokey meeting room where the government's great and good were already gathered.
- The place is small and pokey, with cramped rooms and straight, narrow pathways.
- Here we are, though, in a poky room that slopes quite dramatically towards the door.
- In a brilliant coup de theatre, we first see him in what appears to be a poky little confining room, which as the play starts, expands into a cosy living room decorated for Christmas.
Origin Mid 19th century (in the sense ‘concerned with petty matters’): from poke (in a contemporaneous sense ‘confine’) + -y. |