Pokey vs Pogey - What's the difference?
pokey | pogey |
of small volume, cramped
* 1913 ,
(slang) slow
(slang, of a car) fast
(chiefly, historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.
Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance.
* 1984 , Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10:
As nouns the difference between pokey and pogey
is that pokey is prison while pogey is (chiefly|historical|countable) a poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.As an adjective pokey
is of small volume, cramped.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.
Synonyms
* in the pokepogey
English
Alternative forms
* pogie * pogyNoun
(en-noun)- There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey ,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.