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pokey
adjective- of an enclosed space, small and dark; inadequate UK, 1849
- The two pokey little rooms that existed before were knocked through[.] — The Observer, 25 April 2004
- dawdling, slow US
From SLOWPOKE. - He said it would take about half an hour. Elvin said, “If you’re a pokey driver it might.” — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 126, 1991
- ... Nelson Hareem, who happened to be dawdling down the street at a poky seventy miles per hour, the speed limit he ordinarily reserved for parking lots and residential driveways. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 111, 1992
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