[
US
/ˈpoʊki/
]
[ UK /pˈəʊki/ ]
[ UK /pˈəʊki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
small and remote and insignificant
passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
a jerkwater college - wasting time
NOUN
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
How To Use poky In A Sentence
- Mary's Fish Camp is poky in the way the Pearl is, with plain navy-and-gray walls, plywood banquettes, and a curved eating bar covered in tin.
- Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return?
- I wish you wouldn't be so poky when you're getting ready.
- Carpenters worked in the hallway, men with close-cropped hair and poky drawls, calling to each other under the steam ducts.
- Having lived in Victorian houses with all those poky little rooms, we have tried to provide openness. Times, Sunday Times
- How gloomy, bricky, hessianlined and poky it was. Times, Sunday Times
- He politely accepts a smaller room up a poky flight of stairs, where his tall frame seems ill at ease. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- It was a poky, nondescript place, part of what, these days, would be called keyworker housing. Times, Sunday Times
- No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’
