pokey
pronunciation
How to pronounce pokey in British English:
UK ['pəʊkɪ]
How to pronounce pokey in American English:
US ['poʊkɪ]
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- Noun:
- a slang term for jail
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- Adjective:
- wasting time
- small and remote and insignificant
Word Origin
- pokey (n.)
- "jail," 1919, of uncertain origin; Barnhart says perhaps altered from pogie "poorhouse" (1891), which itself is of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. The whole family was crammed in two pokey rooms .
- 2. Wearing a pokey jeans in a party seems not decent .
- 3. Even if the lobby and restaurants were grand and spacious , the rooms were all too often pokey and old-fashioned .
- 4. Does that make me pokey ?
- 5. I 'd rather live in this old house with all its inconveniences than in one of those pokey bungalows where you haven 't room to swing a cat .