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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence);
[syn: jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. wasting time;
[syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey]

2. small and remote and insignificant;
- Example: "a jerkwater college"
- Example: "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
[syn: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Poky \Pok"y\, a. [Written also pokey.] 1. Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 2. Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

poky adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey] 2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky] n 1: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) [syn: jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

230 Moby Thesaurus words for "poky": 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