poky

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: pok=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

poky, a. [Written also pokey.].

•  Confined; cramped.  [1913 Webster]
•  Dull; tedious; uninteresting.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

poky, adj. (pokier, pokiest) (of a room etc.) small and cramped.

Derivative

pokily adv. pokiness n.

Etymology

POKE(1) (in colloq. sense 'confine') + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

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