Definitions for pokies

pokies pok·y

Spelling: [poh-kee]
IPA: /ˈpoʊ ki/

Pokies is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in pokies (eikops).

Definitions for pokies

noun

  1. Slang. a jail:

adjective

  1. puttering; slow; dull:
  2. (of a place) small and cramped:
  3. (of dress) dowdy.

Origin of pokies

First recorded in 1840-50; poke1 + -y1

Examples for pokies

The children are behaving as well as can be, and Sykes too; and it's not a poky house, by any means.

The miserable weeks went on, in the poky house crammed with children.

But you just swallow it all, and then you get to be so poky a body has no comfort in life.

One hundred and thirty pounds a year for this poky little hole?

But I'm due in a poky little place in Massachusetts called Enderby.

I wouldn't have you go prowling about this poky old place for anything.

So it did not seem at all a poky or stuffy house though it was so small.

“I can't help it, mamma; Battles is slow and poky,” he fumed.

We never have parties in Tideshead, except at the vestry in the winter; and they're so poky.

“Come on,” she urged the poky car as it struggled up the slope.

Word Value for pokies
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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