Synonyms for poky

Grammar : Adj

Spell : poh-kee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpoʊ ki

Définition of poky

Origin : also pokey, 1828, "confined, pinched, shabby," later (1856) "slow, dull;" from varied senses of poke (v.) + -y (2). Also cf. poke (n.3). Related: Pokily; pokiness.

adj cramped

Example sentences :

I wouldn't have you go prowling about this poky old place for anything.
Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln

But I'm due in a poky little place in Massachusetts called Enderby.
Extract from : « Elsie Marley, Honey » by Joslyn Gray

The children are behaving as well as can be, and Sykes too; and it's not a poky house, by any means.
Extract from : « Sarah's School Friend » by May Baldwin

We never have parties in Tideshead, except at the vestry in the winter; and they're so poky.
Extract from : « Betty Leicester » by Sarah Orne Jewett

But you just swallow it all, and then you get to be so poky a body has no comfort in life.
Extract from : « The Faith Doctor » by Edward Eggleston

So it did not seem at all a poky or stuffy house though it was so small.
Extract from : « My New Home » by Mary Louisa Molesworth

“I can't help it, mamma; Battles is slow and poky,” he fumed.
Extract from : « Five Little Peppers at School » by Margaret Sidney

One hundred and thirty pounds a year for this poky little hole?
Extract from : « A Simpleton » by Charles Reade

The miserable weeks went on, in the poky house crammed with children.
Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He had not been solemn and poky, as she had prophesied, and the fact nettled her.
Extract from : « Six Girls » by Fannie Belle Irving

Antonyms for poky

spacious

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