Definitions for poky

poky pok·y

Spelling: [poh-kee]
IPA: /ˈpoʊ ki/

Poky is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in poky (kopy).

Definitions for poky

noun

  1. Slang. a jail:

adjective

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

Origin of poky

First recorded in 1840-50; poke1 + -y1

Examples for poky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for poky
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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