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adjective

Poky adj.

Confined; cramped. (Prov. Eng.)

Dull; tedious; uninteresting. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Poky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Poky" Quotes from Famous Books

... long way—23, Millicent Villas. It's a poky little house. I hate it. We have awful ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... crow's nest, waiting for something to happen; you're in the saddle, riding from point to point all day long, sometimes when there is a trail and sometimes when there isn't, out in the real woods, not in poky, stuffy city streets. You know, Fred, I can't stand the city; I always feel as if ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... have been in London for some time. I met Lady Malvern yesterday, and she gave me Hilda's address. She seems to have gone to live in a very poky place. See, I have entered the name in my ...

— A Young Mutineer • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... But it was no joke. You can't imagine how stupid it is to be with nobody but grown people all the time. I'm fairly aching for a good old game of hi spy or prisoner's base with you. There is nothing at all to do, but to take poky walks. ...

— The Gate of the Giant Scissors • Annie Fellows Johnston

... in, his small clerk said, and the sham detective followed the real one's card into the inner chamber of the poky offices upon the third floor. Mr. Crofts sat aghast in his office chair, the puzzled picture of a man who feels his hour has come, but who wonders which of his many delinquencies has come to light. He was large and florid, ...

— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung

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