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poky

/poh-kee/US // ˈpoʊ ki //UK // (ˈpəʊkɪ) //

捣蛋鬼,小鬼,捣蛋,捣乱的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    pok·i·er, pok·i·est.Informal.

    • : moving or acting slowly or ineffectively; slow; dull: poky drivers.
    • : small and cramped: a poky little room.
    • : dowdy.

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Examples

  • The spot was miles from anywhere, on the side of a hill whose poky desert plants scrape anyone who walks by, and over which wild horses keep watch.

  • The partners’ goal was making underwriting, the poky part in the middle, fully electronic.

  • “Come on,” she urged the poky car as it struggled up the slope.

  • It's rather a poky place, you know, mamma, and in India I suppose the houses are all enormous.

  • It is monstrous to think of burying his talents in a poky little hole like Whitford.

  • We used to have a house, of course, before uncle died, and you know how poky rooms seem after that.

  • The children are behaving as well as can be, and Sykes too; and it's not a poky house, by any means.

  • Somehow Ebenezer did not seem just a poky old farm horse, as Twinkleheels had always regarded him.