poky

poky
Synonyms and related words:
abject, abominable, ambling, arid, arrant, atrocious, banausic, barren, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blah, blank, bloodless, blowzy, careless, cautious, characterless, cheesy, chintzy, circumspect, claudicant, cold, colorless, contemptible, cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crummy, dead, debased, degraded, deliberate, depraved, despicable, dilapidated, dim, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dismal, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, easy, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, execrable, exiguous, fade, faltering, flagging, flagrant, flat, foot-dragging, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gentle, gradual, grave, gross, grubby, half-pint, halting, heavy, heinous, ho-hum, hobbled, hobbling, hollow, humdrum, idle, in rags, inane, indolent, inexcitable, informal, insipid, jejune, jerkwater, knee-high, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lifeless, limited, limping, little, loose, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumbering, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, moderate, monotone, monotonous, monstrous, mussy, nefarious, negligent, niggling, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, pale, pallid, paltry, pedestrian, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, plodding, pointless, poking, ponderous, poor, punk, puny, ragged, raggedy, rank, relaxed, reluctant, reptilian, ruinous, sauntering, scabby, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short, shuffling, slack, slatternly, slight, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slovenly, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, sluttish, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, sordid, spiritless, squalid, staggering, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strolling, stuffy, superficial, tacky, tasteless, tattered, tedious, tentative, tinhorn, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, two-bit, two-by-four, unhurried, unkempt, unlively, unmentionable, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vapid, vile, waddling, wooden, wretched

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  • Poky — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El poky es un sub estilo de música electrónica surgido España a partir del Hard House inglés alrededor del año 2000, el cual junto con el Bumping constituye la rama española del Hard House. El término fue acuñado por …   Wikipedia Español

  • Poky — est un personnage de la bande dessinée Yoko Tsuno. Elle est la sœur jumelle de Khâny, mais a un aspect et une mentalité de petite fille car elle fut sortie de léthargie 15 ans après sa sœur. Toutes deux sont vinéennes et ont émigré de Vinéa… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • poky — [pō′kē] adj. pokier, pokiest [ POKE1 + Y2] 1. not lively; slow, dull, dilatory, etc. 2. small and uncomfortable; stuffy [a poky room] 3. shabbily dressed; dowdy: Also pokey p …   English World dictionary

  • Poky — Pok y, a. [Written also pokey.] 1. Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 2. Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • poky — (also pokey) ► ADJECTIVE (pokier, pokiest) 1) (of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped. 2) N. Amer. annoyingly slow. ORIGIN from POKE(Cf. ↑poke) (in the sense confine …   English terms dictionary

  • poky — [[t]po͟ʊki[/t]] pokier, pokiest (The spelling pokey is also used, especially for meanings 1 and 3.) 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) A room or house that is poky is uncomfortably small. [INFORMAL] ...apartments which were poky, dimly lit and poorly… …   English dictionary

  • poky — pokily, adv. pokiness, n. /poh kee/, adj., pokier, pokiest, n., pl. pokies. adj. Informal. 1. puttering; slow; dull: poky drivers. 2. (of a place) small and cramped: a poky little room. 3. (of dress) dowdy. n …   Universalium

  • poky — AND pokey 1. n. jail; a jail cell. (Usually with the.) □ She spent a day in the poky. □ Have you ever been in the pokey? 2. mod. slow; lagging and inefficient. □ Hurry up! Don’t be so poky …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • poky — pok|y pokey [ˈpəuki US ˈpou ] adj informal 1.) BrE too small and not very pleasant or comfortable ▪ The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms. 2.) AmE doing things very slowly, especially in a way that is annoying ▪ I got behind… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • poky — adjective 1 too small and not very pleasant or comfortable: The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms. 2 AmE doing things very slowly, especially in a way that you find annoying: I got behind some poky driver on the freeway …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • poky — adj. Poky is used with these nouns: ↑flat …   Collocations dictionary

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