Tom spent all night in the pokey.
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Pokey
//ˈpoʊ.ki//
Synonyms for "pokey" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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27 translations across 10 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- tjoekie noun (prison)
Catalan
1 entries- garjola noun (prison)
Czech
4 entries- loudavý adj (slow)
- malý adj (cramped)
- pomalý adj (slow)
- stísněný adj (cramped)
Dutch
4 entries- eng adj (cramped)
- sloom adj (slow)
- vurig adj (fast)
- amigo noun (prison)
Finnish
1 entries- pose noun (prison)
French
2 entries- exigu adj (cramped)
- exigüe adj (cramped)
German
3 entries- eng adj (cramped)
- Gefängnis noun (prison)
- Knast noun (prison)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ankštas adj (cramped)
Polish
4 entries- ciasny adj (cramped)
- powolny adj (slow)
- szybki adj (fast)
- kić noun (prison)
Russian
1 entries- те́сный adj (cramped)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
He loved the little pokey kitchen, where men’s boots tramped, and the dog slept with one eye open for fear of being trodden on; where the lamp hung over the table at night, and everything was so silent.
Source: wiktionary
Grip my pokey, ching down these punks
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