Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pokey"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pokey \Pok"ey\, a.
See {Poky}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pokey
adj 1: wasting time [syn: {dawdling}, {dilatory}, {laggard}, {poky}]
2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college";
"passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: {jerkwater},
{one-horse}, {poky}]
n : a slang term for jail
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