Pony vs Poky - What's the difference?
pony | poky |
Any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.
(regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:
* 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood ,
(Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer.
(UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
(US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "pony and trap" ) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
To lead (a horse) from another horse.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.
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A gambling device based on the card game poker
slow
(of a room or other enclosed space) small and cramped
(slang) jail
As nouns the difference between pony and poky
is that pony is pony (horse) or pony can be bangs, fringe (haircut ) while poky is a gambling device based on the card game poker or poky can be (slang) jail.As an adjective poky is
slow or poky can be (of a room or other enclosed space) small and cramped.pony
English
(wikipedia pony)Etymology 1
1659 from (etyl) (cognate to English foal).Noun
(ponies)- Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
page 283,
- I did not even know what a ‘pony'’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ' ponies of beer.
- ‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.
- ‘Naw - ponies ’ said I.