音标:['pәuki] ;
a. 迟钝的, 狭小的, 破旧的, 单调的
n a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
s wasting time
s small and remote and insignificant
词型变化:名词复数形式 : pokies
词性分布:
形容词100%

poky的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. Life is like crossing the sea, we meet in the same poky boat.生命有如渡过一重大海,我们相遇在这同一的狭船里。
  2. He set up in business fifty years ago in a tiny, poky shop in London.50年前他在伦敦开了一个简陋的小铺子做生意。
  3. This bedroom is too poky for me.我这间卧室太窝憋。
  4. I wish you wouldn't be so poky when you're getting ready.希望你做准备时不要这么慢腾腾。

词汇搭配

  • a poky hole of a place非常窄小的地方...

经典引文

  • If religion is going to make me so poky, I shall put it off.

    出自:H. B. Stowe
【近义词】

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In the 1950s and '60s if there were any children's books in a house, at least one of them was likely to be a Little Golden Book. With their gold spines and brightly colored pictures, they'd just beg to be grabbed off a shelf by a c

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