Pokey

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pokey \Pok"ey\, a.
     See {Poky}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pokey
       adj 1: wasting time [syn: {dilatory}, {laggard}, {poky}]
       2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college";
          "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: {jerkwater},
           {one-horse}, {poky}]
       n : a slang term for jail