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Meanings of pokey in English

Portuguese
cadeia
Catalan
calabós
Spanish
cárcel

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)

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        cadeia

        Wasting time.

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              Small and remote and insignificant.

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                    Usage of pokey in English
                    1
                    Reality: Your accommodation is too pokey to accommodate even a small, portable braai.
                    The South African
                    2
                    Yes, a few mostly in pokey places, yet they are useful.
                    London's Underworld
                    3
                    There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
                    The Irish Times
                    4
                    A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
                    Radio NZ
                    5
                    How could you have lived in that pokey place so long?
                    Kate's Ordeal
                    6
                    Many houses have defunct dark pokey rooms which just end up as storage space.
                    The Irish Times
                    7
                    And the table we get is in a pokey corner beside a fire extinguisher.
                    The Irish Times
                    8
                    But the 55sq m flat felt more pokey than cosy.
                    The Irish Times
                    9
                    Take me to the pokey and throw away the key.
                    Side Jobs
                    10
                    What a mean, pokey, ugly little dirty hovel it was!
                    Waysiders, Stories of Connacht
                    11
                    This is certainly the case for the Lakeland 145's laundry, which is anything but pokey.
                    News.com.au
                    12
                    Today we answered a question about hokey pokey ice cream and Richard's pondering about petrol.
                    Radio NZ
                    13
                    From their pokey back street base they hope, to combat oppression, terrorism and corruption worldwide.
                    The Irish Times
                    14
                    I don't mean to say we're pokey back home.
                    Immortality Inc.
                    15
                    She hated this pokey place, and everyone in it.
                    Flaming June
                    16
                    He had gone to the pokey for a while.
                    Rogues
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                    Pokey through the time