Pokey \Pok"ey\, a.
See Poky.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pokey
adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky]
2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college";
"passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: jerkwater,
one-horse, poky]
n : a slang term for jail
WordNet (r) 2.0
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