Pokey vs Pokes - What's the difference?
pokey | pokes |
of small volume, cramped
* 1913 ,
(slang) slow
(slang, of a car) fast
As nouns the difference between pokey and pokes
is that pokey is prison while pokes is plural of poke.As an adjective pokey
is of a room, house of small volume, cramped.As a verb pokes is
third-person singular of poke.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.