variants or pokey
pokier; pokiest
1
: small and cramped
2
3
: annoyingly slow
pokily adverb
pokiness noun

Examples of poky in a Sentence

frustrated with the poky traffic during rush hour
Recent Examples on the Web Here in the United States, a high percentage of public chargers are poky Level 2 units that deliver alternating current at 240 volts. Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024 The elevators are poky by modern office-building standards but more than enough for the lighter demands of a residence, and presumably they’ll get upgraded anyway. Curbed, 26 Oct. 2023 The new film is much pokier in its pacing, with duller characters. Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023 These scruffy, poky green invaders have taken over much of the Colorado Basin’s riversides, aided by the unnatural stability left by upstream dams that tamed floods. Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023 The small but mighty design, which is about the same size as a two-door Mini Cooper, will be able to navigate narrow city streets sans emissions and park in even the pokiest spots. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 June 2023 She's also preserved its pacing, a poky YA meander that betrays the phantom impression of chapter breaks and a plot perhaps better suited to daily school bus rides than a single auditorium sitting. A.a. Dowd, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023 This fourth generation of the Sienna is offered solely as a hybrid, with front- and all-wheel drive variants sharing the same 245-hp rating, which has proven to be on the poky side in our testing. Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2023 The devices' poky processors and laggy touchscreen keyboards are best suited for short annotations or looking up the name of a book or author—not for writing anything longer than a sentence or two, and certainly not for taking notes or jotting down idle thoughts. Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

poke entry 2

First Known Use

1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of poky was in 1828

Dictionary Entries Near poky

Cite this Entry

“Poky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poky. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

poky

adjective
variants or pokey
pokier; pokiest
1
: being small and cramped
a poky room
2
: so slow as to be annoying
pokiness noun
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