Definition of poky in English:

poky

(also pokey)

adjectivepokier, pokiest ˈpəʊkiˈpoʊki

1(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped.
（房间，房屋）狭小的，拥挤的
five of us shared the poky little room
我们五个人挤在那间狭小的房间里。
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- Here we are, though, in a poky room that slopes quite dramatically towards the door.
- The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place.
- ‘I could have worked in the City, you know,’ he will tell them as he makes his way to the same pokey office he's been in for 20 years.
- So I followed the troops, got soaked on the way and eventually located a rather pokey meeting room where the government's great and good were already gathered.
- I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end.
- The pokey pub seemed to contain almost the whole of the village.
- I must confess I didn't realise it had been renovated - and I'd been avoiding it because in its previous incarnation, it was a slightly pokey cafeteria.
- The cottages had either been too small with pokey rooms and low ceilings or too small with too high a price and outbuildings beyond repair.
- Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town.
- The regulator and his staff operate from the third floor of a rather pokey building that resembles a cheap hotel.
- 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.
- The place is small and pokey, with cramped rooms and straight, narrow pathways.
- 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.
- This hit me hard, and I felt vulnerable in the poky hotel room with only the ticking time bomb of a box and the view of my sea for comfort.
- Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return?
- One year it's living in Malibu, the next year, it's being in plays in pokey theatres in London.
- At that moment, Daniel pulled into a small pokey café with petrol on the side of the motorway and made the bike bring to a standstill.
- Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
- Take a poky little room above a pub: there are more people on stage than there are in the audience.
Synonyms
small, little, tiny
cramped, confined, restricted, narrow, tight, uncomfortable, cell-like, boxy
informal with no room to swing a cat
euphemistic ‘compact’, ‘bijou’, ‘easy to maintain/clean’, ‘well planned’
archaic strait
rare incommodious
2informal (especially of a car) having considerable power or acceleration.
〈非正式〉（尤指汽车）功率大的，加速度大的
Example sentencesExamples
- The cabin itself is a huge step forward on the previous model, which was pokey for a car of its overall dimensions.
3North American Annoyingly slow.
〈北美〉慢吞吞的，缓慢的
his speech was poky, like he was a little simple
他说话慢吞吞的，仿佛是有点迟钝似的。
Example sentencesExamples
- With that much memory available there would be little reason for programs to constantly access that pokey old hard drive: Savvy apps could load just about everything into memory.
- No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’
- So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology.
- Now you can abandon your pokey, slow analog modem and step up to DSL's blazing access speeds.
- Now, if you want to get all the critical updates, but have a pokey old dialup connection, Microsoft wants to give you a CD shipped free of charge.
- Here, the worst incident of road rage is Roddy Murray flashing his brights at a pokey weekend driver.
- If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid.

Derivatives

pokily

adverb

pokiness

noun

When one of the trucks pulled over, I realized what was causing its pokiness.
Example sentencesExamples
- If we subtract the possible effects of leaky fuel tanks and space dust en route, the best explanation for this pokiness becomes magnetic interaction - in this case, with the Sun's field.

Origin

Mid 19th century (in the sense 'concerned with petty matters'): from poke¹ (in a contemporaneous sense 'confine') + -y¹.

Rhymes

chokey, croaky, folkie, folky, hokey, hokey-cokey, hoki, jokey, karaoke, Loki, okey-dokey, Okie, pokey, smoky, trochee

Definition of poky in US English:

poky

(also pokey)

adjectiveˈpoʊkiˈpōkē

1North American Annoyingly slow or dull.
〈北美〉慢吞吞的，缓慢的
his poky old horse
I slept through his poky sermons
Example sentencesExamples
- So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology.
- No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’
- If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid.
- Here, the worst incident of road rage is Roddy Murray flashing his brights at a pokey weekend driver.
- Now, if you want to get all the critical updates, but have a pokey old dialup connection, Microsoft wants to give you a CD shipped free of charge.
- With that much memory available there would be little reason for programs to constantly access that pokey old hard drive: Savvy apps could load just about everything into memory.
- Now you can abandon your pokey, slow analog modem and step up to DSL's blazing access speeds.
2(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped.
（房间，房屋）狭小的，拥挤的
five of us shared the poky little room
我们五个人挤在那间狭小的房间里。
Example sentencesExamples
- One year it's living in Malibu, the next year, it's being in plays in pokey theatres in London.
- The regulator and his staff operate from the third floor of a rather pokey building that resembles a cheap hotel.
- 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.
- Take a poky little room above a pub: there are more people on stage than there are in the audience.
- 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.
- Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return?
- I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end.
- This hit me hard, and I felt vulnerable in the poky hotel room with only the ticking time bomb of a box and the view of my sea for comfort.
- The pokey pub seemed to contain almost the whole of the village.
- Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
- I must confess I didn't realise it had been renovated - and I'd been avoiding it because in its previous incarnation, it was a slightly pokey cafeteria.
- The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place.
- ‘I could have worked in the City, you know,’ he will tell them as he makes his way to the same pokey office he's been in for 20 years.
- Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town.
- The cottages had either been too small with pokey rooms and low ceilings or too small with too high a price and outbuildings beyond repair.
- At that moment, Daniel pulled into a small pokey café with petrol on the side of the motorway and made the bike bring to a standstill.
- So I followed the troops, got soaked on the way and eventually located a rather pokey meeting room where the government's great and good were already gathered.
- The place is small and pokey, with cramped rooms and straight, narrow pathways.
- Here we are, though, in a poky room that slopes quite dramatically towards the door.
- 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.
Synonyms
small, little, tiny

Origin

Mid 19th century (in the sense ‘concerned with petty matters’): from poke (in a contemporaneous sense ‘confine’) + -y.

词汇	poky
释义	Definition of poky in English: poky (also pokey) adjectivepokier, pokiest ˈpəʊkiˈpoʊki 1(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped. （房间，房屋）狭小的，拥挤的 five of us shared the poky little room 我们五个人挤在那间狭小的房间里。 Example sentencesExamples 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. Here we are, though, in a poky room that slopes quite dramatically towards the door. The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place. ‘I could have worked in the City, you know,’ he will tell them as he makes his way to the same pokey office he's been in for 20 years. So I followed the troops, got soaked on the way and eventually located a rather pokey meeting room where the government's great and good were already gathered. I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end. The pokey pub seemed to contain almost the whole of the village. I must confess I didn't realise it had been renovated - and I'd been avoiding it because in its previous incarnation, it was a slightly pokey cafeteria. The cottages had either been too small with pokey rooms and low ceilings or too small with too high a price and outbuildings beyond repair. Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town. The regulator and his staff operate from the third floor of a rather pokey building that resembles a cheap hotel. 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. The place is small and pokey, with cramped rooms and straight, narrow pathways. 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. This hit me hard, and I felt vulnerable in the poky hotel room with only the ticking time bomb of a box and the view of my sea for comfort. Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return? One year it's living in Malibu, the next year, it's being in plays in pokey theatres in London. At that moment, Daniel pulled into a small pokey café with petrol on the side of the motorway and made the bike bring to a standstill. Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom. Take a poky little room above a pub: there are more people on stage than there are in the audience. Synonyms small, little, tiny cramped, confined, restricted, narrow, tight, uncomfortable, cell-like, boxy informal with no room to swing a cat euphemistic ‘compact’, ‘bijou’, ‘easy to maintain/clean’, ‘well planned’ archaic strait rare incommodious 2informal (especially of a car) having considerable power or acceleration. 〈非正式〉（尤指汽车）功率大的，加速度大的 Example sentencesExamples The cabin itself is a huge step forward on the previous model, which was pokey for a car of its overall dimensions. 3North American Annoyingly slow. 〈北美〉慢吞吞的，缓慢的 his speech was poky, like he was a little simple 他说话慢吞吞的，仿佛是有点迟钝似的。 Example sentencesExamples With that much memory available there would be little reason for programs to constantly access that pokey old hard drive: Savvy apps could load just about everything into memory. No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’ So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology. Now you can abandon your pokey, slow analog modem and step up to DSL's blazing access speeds. Now, if you want to get all the critical updates, but have a pokey old dialup connection, Microsoft wants to give you a CD shipped free of charge. Here, the worst incident of road rage is Roddy Murray flashing his brights at a pokey weekend driver. If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid. Derivatives pokily adverb pokiness noun When one of the trucks pulled over, I realized what was causing its pokiness. Example sentencesExamples If we subtract the possible effects of leaky fuel tanks and space dust en route, the best explanation for this pokiness becomes magnetic interaction - in this case, with the Sun's field. Origin Mid 19th century (in the sense 'concerned with petty matters'): from poke¹ (in a contemporaneous sense 'confine') + -y¹. Rhymes chokey, croaky, folkie, folky, hokey, hokey-cokey, hoki, jokey, karaoke, Loki, okey-dokey, Okie, pokey, smoky, trochee Definition of poky in US English: poky (also pokey) adjectiveˈpoʊkiˈpōkē 1North American Annoyingly slow or dull. 〈北美〉慢吞吞的，缓慢的 his poky old horse I slept through his poky sermons Example sentencesExamples So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology. No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’ If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid. Here, the worst incident of road rage is Roddy Murray flashing his brights at a pokey weekend driver. Now, if you want to get all the critical updates, but have a pokey old dialup connection, Microsoft wants to give you a CD shipped free of charge. With that much memory available there would be little reason for programs to constantly access that pokey old hard drive: Savvy apps could load just about everything into memory. Now you can abandon your pokey, slow analog modem and step up to DSL's blazing access speeds. 2(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped. （房间，房屋）狭小的，拥挤的 five of us shared the poky little room 我们五个人挤在那间狭小的房间里。 Example sentencesExamples One year it's living in Malibu, the next year, it's being in plays in pokey theatres in London. The regulator and his staff operate from the third floor of a rather pokey building that resembles a cheap hotel. 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. Take a poky little room above a pub: there are more people on stage than there are in the audience. 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. Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return? I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end. This hit me hard, and I felt vulnerable in the poky hotel room with only the ticking time bomb of a box and the view of my sea for comfort. The pokey pub seemed to contain almost the whole of the village. Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom. I must confess I didn't realise it had been renovated - and I'd been avoiding it because in its previous incarnation, it was a slightly pokey cafeteria. The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place. ‘I could have worked in the City, you know,’ he will tell them as he makes his way to the same pokey office he's been in for 20 years. Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town. The cottages had either been too small with pokey rooms and low ceilings or too small with too high a price and outbuildings beyond repair. At that moment, Daniel pulled into a small pokey café with petrol on the side of the motorway and made the bike bring to a standstill. So I followed the troops, got soaked on the way and eventually located a rather pokey meeting room where the government's great and good were already gathered. The place is small and pokey, with cramped rooms and straight, narrow pathways. Here we are, though, in a poky room that slopes quite dramatically towards the door. 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. Synonyms small, little, tiny Origin Mid 19th century (in the sense ‘concerned with petty matters’): from poke (in a contemporaneous sense ‘confine’) + -y.
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