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- DictionaryPok·y/ˈpōkē/
adjective
- 1. annoyingly slow or dull: North American "his poky old horse"
- 2. (of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped: "five of us shared the poky little room"
1. : small and cramped. 2. : shabby, dull. 3. : annoyingly slow. pokily. ˈpō-kə-lē. adverb. pokiness. ˈpō-kē-nəs. noun. Synonyms. crawling. creeping. dallying. dawdling. dilatory. dillydallying. dragging. laggard. lagging. languid. leisurely. poking. slow.
POKY definition: 1. A poky room, house, or other place is unpleasantly small and uncomfortable: 2. slow: 3. (of a…. Learn more.
Poky definition: moving or acting slowly or ineffectively; slow; dull. See examples of POKY used in a sentence.
POKY meaning: 1. A poky room, house, or other place is unpleasantly small and uncomfortable: 2. slow: 3. (of a…. Learn more.
Someone who moves very slowly is poky. When you try to take your pokydog on a jog, she'll stop to sniff every bush and blade of grass along the way. Wasting time, dawdling, or being annoying and boring are all ways to get called poky: "I need a new computer — my pokyold laptop takes forever to do anything."
1. Dawdling; slow: waited for the poky sales clerk to ring up the sale. 2. Frumpish; shabby: found poky old clothes at the thrift store. 3. Small and cramped: a poky but inexpensive apartment. [From poke .] pok′i·ly adv. pok′i·ness n.
If you say that someone is poky, you are criticizing them for moving or reacting very slowly.
POKY meaning: 1. A room or house that is poky is unpleasant because it is too small. 2. too slow. Learn more.
Definition of poky adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'poky'. 1. A room or house that is poky is uncomfortably small. [informal, disapproval] [...] 2. If you say that someone is poky, you are criticizing them for moving or reacting very slowly. [US, informal, disapproval] [...] 3. If someone is in the pokey, they are in prison.
