[
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
- A huddle of poky teashops serves the day labourers who congregate here in search of work, and travellers from the station.
- The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
- The downside is that some rooms remain authentically poky, with poor views or no balconies. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- But whether you opt for old or new, it seems the future is looking bright for the dark and poky terrace. Times, Sunday Times
- The only value I can see is to provide a little giddyap to that poky foursome in front of you. Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
- 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.
- The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
- Is it a harmful geographic stereotype to suggest that southerners are a little bit poky?
- But the mirror, mirror on the wall and on the bedside cabinet drawers is also telling us something about the poky size of rooms in new-builds. Times, Sunday Times
