pokyadj.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊki/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊki/

Forms: 1700s– pokey, 1800s– poky.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke v.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < poke v.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier poking adj.In poky bonnet n. at Compounds and in quot. 1863 at sense 1a after poke n.² Perhaps compare also later pokey n.¹

a. That pokes (in various senses); projecting. Cf. poking adj. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective]

steepc1000

tooting?c1225

strutting1387

prominent?1440

extant1540

eminent?1541

pouting1563

poking1566

out1576

egregious1578

promontory1579

out-pointed1585

buttinga1593

outjetting1598

perking1598

jettying1609

juttying1609

out-jutting1611

outstanding1611

upsticking1611

out-shooting1622

jutting1624

outgrowing1625

rank1625

toting1645

projectinga1652

porrected1653

protruded1654

protruding1654

upcast1658

protending1659

jettinga1661

raised1663

starting1680

emersed1686

exerted1697

projective1703

jet-out1709

exorbitant1715

sticking1715

foreright1736

poky1754

perked-up1779

salient1789

prouda1800

overdriven1812

extrusive1816

stand-up1818

shouldering1824

jutty1827

outflung1830

sticky-out1839

sticking-up1852

outreaching1853

protrusive1858

out-thrusting1869

stickout1884

protrudent1891

1754 A. Cook Professed Cookery 79 A Pokey Tongue. Take a large Loin of Lamb,..cut all the Lean in Slices, and lay them in the Form of a boiled Tongue.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Dark Night's Work xii. 207 If you would but wear a decent-shaped bonnet, instead of always wearing those of the poky shape in fashion when you were seventeen.

1965 N. Mailer Amer. Dream (1966) ii. 51 As if a horde of tourists, pokey and inquisitive, were wandering through my body.

1989 W. Horwood Duncton Found i. v. 46 All was leaves, dried twigs and poky branches.

†b. Cricket. = poking adj. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [adjective] > types of batting

cross-batted1577

steady1826

poking1836

free1851

wrist shot1851

fast-footed1853

wristy1867

stonewall1880

forcing1888

poky1888

firm-footed1907

back foot1936

1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 142 To the pokey, nervous style of batsmen, it [sc. the high-dropping full-pitch] is fraught with considerable uneasiness.

1891 W. G. Grace Cricket x. 263 Against a poky batsman, on a sticky wicket, he has often as many opportunities as point of bringing off a smart catch.

2. Of a room, building, etc.: small in size or accommodation; cramped, confined; (also occasionally) mean, shabby. Cf. poking adj. 2.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent

narroweOE

straitc1290

scarce1297

scanta1533

pinched?1567

strict1598

thrifty1601

straitened1602

scanty1701

scrimped?c1716

pookit1818

poky1828

postage-stamp-sized1852

poking1864

boxy1870

pocket handkerchief1910

postage stamp1937

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [adjective] > type of accommodation

single-bedded1788

poky1828

poking1864

boxy1870

adult1956

1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps I. 463 Lord St. Lawrence is abusing large parties, and praising little poky tea-and-toast things!

1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xx. 174 In a little poky cottage under the hill.

1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. v. 74 It is monstrous to think of burying his talents in a poky little hole.

1894 A. Jessopp Random Roaming i. 18 Chichester seemed to me..a poky place.

1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement v. 209 All this for less than it would cost to live in some dingy and dismal boarding-house or the pokiest of pokey flats.

1971 Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 2/5 A pokey, little, highly rented flat.

1995 Saturday Night June 94/3 We did find its one remaining Jewish restaurant. A poky little place, now frequented, for the most part, by grizzly old men.

a. Unstimulating, dull; concerned with petty matters or narrow interests; dawdling, slow. Cf. poking adj. 2. Now chiefly North American.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective] > engaged in trifling activity

holidayc1450

wantonizing1599

peddling1613

poking1748

pottering1826

poky1828

piffling1848

puttering1855

footering1859

tiddlywinking1869

frivolling1882

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > fussing or small-minded

fistinga1535

petty1597

whiffling1613

leguleian1615

fiddle-faddle1617

leguleious1660

pottering1720

poking1748

niggling1827

poky1828

whifflegig1830

niggly1840

pistareen1860

petty-minded1927

1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps II. 274 Nor was..Miss Barry's lovely face half so lovely, she thought, ‘when pale and poky’, as when all lighted up with colour and animation.

1853 Lady Lyttelton Let. 20 Aug. in Corr. (1912) xvi. 413 All I want is to love more, and to smile more, and to be more amused and more merry, and less poky and morose and dry and grave!

1856 H. B. Stowe Dred iv If religion is going to make me so poky, I shall put it off as long as I can.

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms iii I laughed at myself for being so soft as to choose a hard-working pokey kind of life.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. xii. 209 The party was made up of what Mrs. Trenor called ‘poky people’—her generic name for persons who did not play bridge.

1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 14/2 Plop, plop, plopity plop... The feet of Father Ready's poky old saddle horse slowly ate upon the weary miles.

1981 J. Updike Rabbit is Rich (1982) iii. 310 We're so pokey, we should have taken up travelling years ago.

1989 Byte Aug. 205/1 HyperCard is quite poky when running on a standard 1-megabyte Mac Plus, even from a hard disk.

†b. Of dress, etc.: shabby, dowdy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > shabby or worn-out

threadbare1362

rusty1602

dowdy1774

dowdyish1818

pokyc1854

hand-me-down1895

daverdy1906

schlumpy1956

schleppy1966

c1854 W. M. Thackeray Wolves & Lamb i Why do you dress yourself in this odd poky way?

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xix. 178 The ladies were in their pokiest old head-gear and most dingy gowns.

Compounds

poky bonnet n. rare = poke bonnet n. (cf. poke n.² 3).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > poke bonnet

poke bonnet1801

poke1815

poky bonnet1861

pokey1880

1861 E. B. Browning Let. in Lett. to I. Blagden (1897) II. 430 The nearest approach to a poky bonnet possible in this sinful generation.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 160 With his harvestmoon face in a poky bonnet.

poky hat n. [perhaps influenced by hokey-pokey n. 2] Scottish colloquial an ice-cream cone.

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1927 Glasgow Herald 3 Aug. 8 Such a quantity of the popular frozen delicacy [sc. ice-cream] would doubtless make a very satisfying pokey-hat.

1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's vi. 68 Th'was rickety tables where you could sit and lick your slider or poky hat.

Derivatives

ˈpokily adv.

ΚΠ

1861 Littell's Living Age 10 Aug. 382/2 The flaming ribbons in his hat, They looked so tearing fine, ah, I wanted pokily to get To give to my Jemimah.

1889 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 1 Feb., Don't let's sit here pokily. We never were poky, you know. Let's have a ramble.

1987 Financial Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. 13 The Fairy Godmother's transformation from hag to beneficent being is pokily managed in the darkest recess of the kitchen.

1994 Film Comment Sept. 12/3 The movie starts pokily, dawdling over multiple shots of an ocean liner putting out to sea.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	poky
释义	pokyadj. Brit. /ˈpəʊki/, U.S. /ˈpoʊki/ Forms: 1700s– pokey, 1800s– poky. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke v.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < poke v.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier poking adj.In poky bonnet n. at Compounds and in quot. 1863 at sense 1a after poke n.² Perhaps compare also later pokey n.¹ 1. a. That pokes (in various senses); projecting. Cf. poking adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] steepc1000 tooting?c1225 strutting1387 prominent?1440 extant1540 eminent?1541 pouting1563 poking1566 out1576 egregious1578 promontory1579 out-pointed1585 buttinga1593 outjetting1598 perking1598 jettying1609 juttying1609 out-jutting1611 outstanding1611 upsticking1611 out-shooting1622 jutting1624 outgrowing1625 rank1625 toting1645 projectinga1652 porrected1653 protruded1654 protruding1654 upcast1658 protending1659 jettinga1661 raised1663 starting1680 emersed1686 exerted1697 projective1703 jet-out1709 exorbitant1715 sticking1715 foreright1736 poky1754 perked-up1779 salient1789 prouda1800 overdriven1812 extrusive1816 stand-up1818 shouldering1824 jutty1827 outflung1830 sticky-out1839 sticking-up1852 outreaching1853 protrusive1858 out-thrusting1869 stickout1884 protrudent1891 1754 A. Cook Professed Cookery 79 A Pokey Tongue. Take a large Loin of Lamb,..cut all the Lean in Slices, and lay them in the Form of a boiled Tongue. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Dark Night's Work xii. 207 If you would but wear a decent-shaped bonnet, instead of always wearing those of the poky shape in fashion when you were seventeen. 1965 N. Mailer Amer. Dream (1966) ii. 51 As if a horde of tourists, pokey and inquisitive, were wandering through my body. 1989 W. Horwood Duncton Found i. v. 46 All was leaves, dried twigs and poky branches. †b. Cricket. = poking adj. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [adjective] > types of batting cross-batted1577 steady1826 poking1836 free1851 wrist shot1851 fast-footed1853 wristy1867 stonewall1880 forcing1888 poky1888 firm-footed1907 back foot1936 1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 142 To the pokey, nervous style of batsmen, it [sc. the high-dropping full-pitch] is fraught with considerable uneasiness. 1891 W. G. Grace Cricket x. 263 Against a poky batsman, on a sticky wicket, he has often as many opportunities as point of bringing off a smart catch. 2. Of a room, building, etc.: small in size or accommodation; cramped, confined; (also occasionally) mean, shabby. Cf. poking adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent narroweOE straitc1290 scarce1297 scanta1533 pinched?1567 strict1598 thrifty1601 straitened1602 scanty1701 scrimped?c1716 pookit1818 poky1828 postage-stamp-sized1852 poking1864 boxy1870 pocket handkerchief1910 postage stamp1937 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [adjective] > type of accommodation single-bedded1788 poky1828 poking1864 boxy1870 adult1956 1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps I. 463 Lord St. Lawrence is abusing large parties, and praising little poky tea-and-toast things! 1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xx. 174 In a little poky cottage under the hill. 1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. v. 74 It is monstrous to think of burying his talents in a poky little hole. 1894 A. Jessopp Random Roaming i. 18 Chichester seemed to me..a poky place. 1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement v. 209 All this for less than it would cost to live in some dingy and dismal boarding-house or the pokiest of pokey flats. 1971 Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 2/5 A pokey, little, highly rented flat. 1995 Saturday Night June 94/3 We did find its one remaining Jewish restaurant. A poky little place, now frequented, for the most part, by grizzly old men. 3. a. Unstimulating, dull; concerned with petty matters or narrow interests; dawdling, slow. Cf. poking adj. 2. Now chiefly North American. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective] > engaged in trifling activity holidayc1450 wantonizing1599 peddling1613 poking1748 pottering1826 poky1828 piffling1848 puttering1855 footering1859 tiddlywinking1869 frivolling1882 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > fussing or small-minded fistinga1535 petty1597 whiffling1613 leguleian1615 fiddle-faddle1617 leguleious1660 pottering1720 poking1748 niggling1827 poky1828 whifflegig1830 niggly1840 pistareen1860 petty-minded1927 1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps II. 274 Nor was..Miss Barry's lovely face half so lovely, she thought, ‘when pale and poky’, as when all lighted up with colour and animation. 1853 Lady Lyttelton Let. 20 Aug. in Corr. (1912) xvi. 413 All I want is to love more, and to smile more, and to be more amused and more merry, and less poky and morose and dry and grave! 1856 H. B. Stowe Dred iv If religion is going to make me so poky, I shall put it off as long as I can. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms iii I laughed at myself for being so soft as to choose a hard-working pokey kind of life. 1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. xii. 209 The party was made up of what Mrs. Trenor called ‘poky people’—her generic name for persons who did not play bridge. 1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 14/2 Plop, plop, plopity plop... The feet of Father Ready's poky old saddle horse slowly ate upon the weary miles. 1981 J. Updike Rabbit is Rich (1982) iii. 310 We're so pokey, we should have taken up travelling years ago. 1989 Byte Aug. 205/1 HyperCard is quite poky when running on a standard 1-megabyte Mac Plus, even from a hard disk. †b. Of dress, etc.: shabby, dowdy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > shabby or worn-out threadbare1362 rusty1602 dowdy1774 dowdyish1818 pokyc1854 hand-me-down1895 daverdy1906 schlumpy1956 schleppy1966 c1854 W. M. Thackeray Wolves & Lamb i Why do you dress yourself in this odd poky way? 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xix. 178 The ladies were in their pokiest old head-gear and most dingy gowns. Compounds poky bonnet n. rare = poke bonnet n. (cf. poke n.² 3). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > poke bonnet poke bonnet1801 poke1815 poky bonnet1861 pokey1880 1861 E. B. Browning Let. in Lett. to I. Blagden (1897) II. 430 The nearest approach to a poky bonnet possible in this sinful generation. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 160 With his harvestmoon face in a poky bonnet. poky hat n. [perhaps influenced by hokey-pokey n. 2] Scottish colloquial an ice-cream cone. ΚΠ 1927 Glasgow Herald 3 Aug. 8 Such a quantity of the popular frozen delicacy [sc. ice-cream] would doubtless make a very satisfying pokey-hat. 1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's vi. 68 Th'was rickety tables where you could sit and lick your slider or poky hat. Derivatives ˈpokily adv. ΚΠ 1861 Littell's Living Age 10 Aug. 382/2 The flaming ribbons in his hat, They looked so tearing fine, ah, I wanted pokily to get To give to my Jemimah. 1889 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 1 Feb., Don't let's sit here pokily. We never were poky, you know. Let's have a ramble. 1987 Financial Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. 13 The Fairy Godmother's transformation from hag to beneficent being is pokily managed in the darkest recess of the kitchen. 1994 Film Comment Sept. 12/3 The movie starts pokily, dawdling over multiple shots of an ocean liner putting out to sea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1754
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