pokyadjective
pokier, pokiest also pokey uk/ˈpəʊ.ki/us/ˈpoʊ.ki/poky adjective (SMALL)
UK informal A poky room, house, or other place is unpleasantly small and uncomfortable:
They live in a poky little flat.
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Small
- baby
- bijou
- bite-sized
- claustrophobic
- compact
- diminutive
- dinky
- elfin
- modest
- on the large, small, etc. side idiom
- petite
- pint-sized
- pocket handkerchief
- pocket-sized
- portable
- pygmy
- side
- skimpy
- undersized
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poky adjective (SLOW)
US informal slow:
I wish you wouldn't be so poky when you're getting ready.
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Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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poky adjective (FAST)
UK informal (of a car) fast:
a poky two-litre petrol engine
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Fast and rapid
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- crash
- fleet
- have a heavy foot idiom
- high-speed
- hotfoot
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- Jack Robinson
- lickety-split
- lightning
- mile
- smartly
- souped-up
- spread like wildfire idiom
- swift
- tilt
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