Pocky vs Jocky - What's the difference?
pocky | jocky |
Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.
*1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act V scene 1:
*:Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many pocky corpses that will scarce hold the laying in) 'a will last you some eight year [...]
*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , IV:
*:‘You Damn'd Confounded Pocky Whore, I am glad we are met, for now will I give you as many Stripes as I've taken Pills, Bolus's, and other Hellish Slip-slops on your Account.’
(informal) Jocklike.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 17, author=Edward Wyatt, title=Diagnosis: Acute Case of Broadway Melodium Tremens, work=New York Times
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As adjectives the difference between pocky and jocky
is that pocky is covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic while jocky is jocklike.pocky
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