Pokey vs Pikey - What's the difference?
pokey | pikey |
of small volume, cramped
* 1913 ,
(slang) slow
(slang, of a car) fast
(British, pejorative) A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically Irish Travellers to gypsies or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft, single-parent families and living on run-down estates.
As nouns the difference between pokey and pikey
is that pokey is prison while pikey is a low-ranking soldier who merely carries a pike.As an adjective pokey
is of a room, house of small volume, cramped.As a verb pikey is
to steal.pokey
English
Alternative forms
* pokyAdjective
(head)- He loved the little pokey kitchen, where men’s boots tramped, and the dog slept with one eye open for fear of being trodden on; where the lamp hung over the table at night, and everything was so silent.
