variants
or pokey
pokier; pokiest
Examples of poky in a Sentence
frustrated with the poky traffic during rush hour
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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.
—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
Yet nothing will ever beat seeing the old cottage itself alongside the Grade II listed Johnny Haynes Stand with its original, poky turnstiles.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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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.
—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
Yet nothing will ever beat seeing the old cottage itself alongside the Grade II listed Johnny Haynes Stand with its original, poky turnstiles.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Poky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poky. Accessed 14 Feb. 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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