variants
or pokey
pokier; pokiest
Synonyms
Examples of poky in a Sentence
frustrated with the poky traffic during rush hour
Recent Examples on the Web
These scruffy, poky green invaders have taken over much of the Colorado Basin’s riversides, aided by the unnatural stability left by upstream dams that tamed floods.
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Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
The small but mighty design, which is about the same size as a two-door Mini Cooper, will be able to navigate narrow city streets sans emissions and park in even the pokiest spots.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 June 2023
She's also preserved its pacing, a poky YA meander that betrays the phantom impression of chapter breaks and a plot perhaps better suited to daily school bus rides than a single auditorium sitting.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
This fourth generation of the Sienna is offered solely as a hybrid, with front- and all-wheel drive variants sharing the same 245-hp rating, which has proven to be on the poky side in our testing.
—Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2023
The devices' poky processors and laggy touchscreen keyboards are best suited for short annotations or looking up the name of a book or author—not for writing anything longer than a sentence or two, and certainly not for taking notes or jotting down idle thoughts.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2023
Small, poky hairs line its stem.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
Base powertrain is pretty poky, buzzy engine sounds under heavy throttle, not as fuel efficient in our testing as last year's model.
—Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
At Justice, he was assigned to the Bureau of Investigation, then a relatively poky subdepartment known to the public, if it was known at all, for sniffing out violations of the 1910 Mann Act.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
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Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
The small but mighty design, which is about the same size as a two-door Mini Cooper, will be able to navigate narrow city streets sans emissions and park in even the pokiest spots.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 June 2023
She's also preserved its pacing, a poky YA meander that betrays the phantom impression of chapter breaks and a plot perhaps better suited to daily school bus rides than a single auditorium sitting.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
This fourth generation of the Sienna is offered solely as a hybrid, with front- and all-wheel drive variants sharing the same 245-hp rating, which has proven to be on the poky side in our testing.
—Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2023
The devices' poky processors and laggy touchscreen keyboards are best suited for short annotations or looking up the name of a book or author—not for writing anything longer than a sentence or two, and certainly not for taking notes or jotting down idle thoughts.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2023
Small, poky hairs line its stem.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
Base powertrain is pretty poky, buzzy engine sounds under heavy throttle, not as fuel efficient in our testing as last year's model.
—Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
At Justice, he was assigned to the Bureau of Investigation, then a relatively poky subdepartment known to the public, if it was known at all, for sniffing out violations of the 1910 Mann Act.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
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Etymology
First Known Use
1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Dictionary Entries Near poky
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“Poky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poky. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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poky
adjective
variants
or pokey
pokier; pokiest
1
: being small and cramped
a poky room
2
: so slow as to be annoying
pokiness
noun
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