variants
or pokey
pokier; pokiest
Examples of poky in a Sentence
Adjective
frustrated with the poky traffic during rush hour
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
3 July 2026
His studio flat was dingy and poky and too full with all his books, which his mother refused to keep for him any longer.
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Tessa Hadley,
New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2026
Drew and Lucy Moore lived on Sylvan, past the green house with all the dogs, in a poky little Queen Anne fixer-upper on a half lot.
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Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
The movie won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and did well at the box office despite a poky pace and a three-hour running time.
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Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
The loadout on sale here differs from our review model in a few ways, notably swapping an AMD Ryzen 5 processor in for the poky 12th-generation Intel Core i3 and doubling the RAM.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
3 July 2026
His studio flat was dingy and poky and too full with all his books, which his mother refused to keep for him any longer.
—
Tessa Hadley,
New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2026
Drew and Lucy Moore lived on Sylvan, past the green house with all the dogs, in a poky little Queen Anne fixer-upper on a half lot.
—
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
The movie won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and did well at the box office despite a poky pace and a three-hour running time.
—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Poky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poky. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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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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