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Pokey   Listen
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Pokey  adj.  See Poky.





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"Pokey" Quotes from Famous Books



... same time the head of the column began to arrive. You never saw anything like it in your life. The strikers had been living out there in a good deal of style—with sentries and republican government and all that. By the great hokey-pokey! they couldn't keep it up a minute when their wives came. They knew 'em too well. They just bulged in without rhyme or rule. Every woman went for her husband and told him to pack up and go home. Some of 'em—the artful kind—begged and wheedled and cried; said they were ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay


Words linked to "Pokey" :   bastille, jail, jerkwater, holding cell, dilatory, slow, slammer, jailhouse, house of correction, gaol, provincial, poke, clink, workhouse, laggard, hoosgow, one-horse


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