Rocky vs Pocky - What's the difference?
rocky | pocky |
Unstable; easily rocked.
In the style of rock and roll music.
(figuratively) Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.
Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.
Like a rock.
(figuratively) Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
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.’
As a proper noun rocky
is a male given name, pet form of rocco.As an adjective pocky is
covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.rocky
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(en-adj)- The table was rocky , so we put a book under one leg.
- His new album is quite rocky .
- Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.
Derived terms
* rocky chairEtymology 2
From .Adjective
(er)- a rocky mountain
- a rocky shore
- ''the rocky orb of a shield
