Poky

Definition: Poky

Poky

Adjective

1. Wasting time.

2. Small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "poky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Note: Poky \Pok"y\, adjective. [Written also pokey.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Poky

Crosswords: Poky

Books

• Poky Little Puppy and the Patchwork Blanket (reference)

• Poky Little Puppy's Friends (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Golden Books - The Poky Little Puppy (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "poky": poky little room ♦ poky old town. Additional references.

Ending with "poky": hoky-poky.

Albanian

njeri i ngathët (dub, duffer, jumbo, laggard, lagger), i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized), i ngushtë (acute, bigheaded, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, intimate, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, provincial, small, small minded, Strait, tight), i ngordhur (carrion, dilatory), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, pen, penitentiary, prison, prison house, quod, stir). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متواني, ‏غير أنيق (inelegant, unattractive). (various references)

Bulgarian 

незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), беден (fortuneless, humble, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jejune, meager, meagre, mean, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, penurious, pokey, poor, poorly off, poverty stricken, scanty, shabby, tenuous, thin), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Chinese 

慢性 (Chronic, Chronical). (various references)

French

sombre, lambin, exigu. (various references)

German

eng (close, close fitting, closely, confined, cramped, intimate, limited, narrow, narrowly, reduced, restricted, snug, straitened, tight, tightly). (various references)

Greek 

στενόχωροσ (embarrassing, incommodious, inconvenient, stringent, uncomfortable), νωθρόσ (indolent, laggard, languid, logy, lymphatic, sluggardly, sluggish, stick in the mud), περιορισμένοσ (bound, confined, finite, pent, qualified, restricted), ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick). (various references)

Hungarian

piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy), viseltes (pokey, shabby, threadbare, well worn, worn-out), szűk (cramp, cramped, narrow, niggling, pokey, scanty, skimpy, strait, to fit tight, to skimp), nyomorúságos (abject, deplorable, dingy, miserable, pelting, piteous, pitiable, pokey, poverty-stricken, squalid, tin-pot), nehézfejű (dense headed, dim-witted, doltish, lumpish, muzzy, opaque, pokey, to be slow on the uptake), nehéz felfogású (blockish, blunt-witted, dense headed, dullish, dull-witted, fat-witted, pokey, slow witted, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, to be slow on the uptake, unapprehensive, weak-headed), levegőtlen (close, pokey), lendülettelen (pokey), lassú felfogású (pokey), lassú (adagio, dawdling, deliberate, leisurely, moderate, ooze, pokey, slow, sluggish, tardy, to go at a walk, to jog along, to move at a walk), keserves (bitter, grievous, hard, pokey, trying), kedélytelen (bloodless, pokey), flegmatikus (imperturbable, irresponsive, phlegmatic, pokey, stolid), flegma (flip, imperturbability, phlegm, pokey, stolidity). (various references)

Indonesian

sempit (muggy, pokey, tight). (various references)

Italian

angusto (narrow, pokey). (various references)

Korean 

초라한 (frumpish, slipshod). (various references)

Manx

coon (confined, narrow, narrow-minded, strait, tight-fitting), beg (dwarf, few, model, narrow, quiet, short, slight, small). (various references)

Pig Latin

okypay.(various references)

Portuguese

pequeno (bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, hidebound, kiddy, little, low, minor, one-horse, petty, pony, potty, puny, pygmean, short, slender, small, smalltime, sonny, tiny), miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, godforsaken, logy, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), estreito (close, cramped, gat, gullet, hidebound, narrow, one-track, parochial, strait, straits, thin, tight), apertado (boxed up, clinging, closed, hard, hidebound, narrow, pressed, squeezed, strait, tight), acanhado (backward, demure, diffluent, gauche, hidebound, narrow, poor-spirited, scary, scrimpy, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, skimpy, timid). (various references)

Romanian

sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, meanly, miserable, modest, penurious, poor, poorly, poverty stricken, scant, shabby, slender, sorry, sparing), neîngrijit (dowdy, frowzy, grubby, shabby, slattern, sloppy, unkempt, untidy, weed-grown), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), ca vai de lume. (various references)

Russian 

кутузка тесный, неряшливый (grubby, lax, scruffy, slatternly, slipshod, slovenly), незначительный (exiguous, imperceptible, importless, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, little, minor, minute, negligible, nonsignificant, of no account, of small account, outside, paltry, puny, pygmy, remote, slight, small time, small-time, tenuous, trivial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

teskoban (anxious), spor (bovine, contest, controversy, dilatory, laggard, lazy, litigation, logy, quarrel, slow, sluggish, tardy, unhurried), skučen (cramped, crowded, hidebound, incapacious, restricted, scrimp, stringent), dosadan (acerbate, annoying, boring, bothersome, drear, dreary, grinding, humdrum, incommodious, long-spun, pain in the neck, pesky, repetitious, slow, stodgy, stuffy, teasing, tedious, tiresome, undiverted, vexatious). (various references)

Spanish

lento (deliberate, dilatory, dour, easy, gentle, heavy, labored, laboured, lingering, pokey, shuffling, slow, slow witted, sluggish), diminuto (diminutive, diminutively, dwarf, minute, pokey, tiny, undersized). (various references)

Swedish

trång (close, cramped, crowded, incapacious, incommodious, narrow, skimpy, tight). (various references)

Turkish

uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), ufacık (dinky, inappreciable, minuscule, minute, small, smallish, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, very small, wee, weeny, wispy), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), küçük (baby, bantam, child, fiddling, inconsiderable, infant, infra-, junior, kid, little, micro-, mini, mini-, minor, minuscule, nano-, not healthy, one horse, paltry, peanut, petit, petty, piddling, remote, slight, small, snug, tiddly, trifling, trivial, undersized, young, younger), kılıksız (dowdy, dowdyish, down heels, down the heels, draggled, frumpish, hangdog, mean, ratty, seedy, shabby, sleazy, slovenly, untidy), dar (acute, clinging, close fitting, close-bodied, constricted, exiguous, narrow, narrowly, parochial, restrained, snug, Strait, stringent, tight), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

убогий (bald, bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poking, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scant, scanty, scraggy, skimp, starveling, stingy, wretched), тісний (cramp, narrow, pinched, pokey, tight), нечепурний (pokey, slattern, slatternly, slovenly), мізерний (bare, beggarly, feeble, insignificant, miserable, naught, nominal, outside, paltry, pitiable, pokey), маловажний (indifferent, pokey), лінивий (feckless, floppy, lazy, lubberly, ornery, otiose, picktooth, pokey, supine). (various references)

Vietnamese 

t�"i t� n (drear, dreary, shabby, sorry), nhỏ hẹp (thin). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "poky": hokypoky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Poky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joky, ooky, opuy, opy, pacy, paki, pakki, pao-yu, Pdki, piki, piky, Plonky, poc, pocey, Pockly, pogy, pok, poka, pokay, Pokeys, poki, pokie, poks, Polkyth, polym, pomy, pook, Pooka, pookey, pooki, Pookie, pooky, Pooya, popy, Poski, potyf, pouy, poxy, poyi, pozy, puiy, pukey, puki, puko, puky, Puok, Pykie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kop, yok.

-2 letters: op, oy, yo.

+1 letter: pocky, pokey, porky, yapok.

+2 letters: pokeys, pokily, spooky, yapock, yapoks.

+3 letters: kouprey, krypton, pockily, skyphoi, skyphos, yapocks.

+4 letters: copybook, copydesk, hokypoky, koupreys, kryptons, kyphoses, kyphosis, kyphotic, peacocky, playbook, pyknoses, pyknosis, pyknotic, spookery, spookily.

+5 letters: copybooks, copydesks, karyotype, kymograph, monkeypod, playbooks, pokeberry, poppycock.