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)
Adjective:
wasting time
small and remote and insignificant;
"a jerkwater college"
"passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
双语例句
1. They threw him in the pokey, kept him under very harsh conditions.
他们把他投进监狱，服刑条件非常恶劣。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Do the Hokey Pokey and turn yourself around.
转一转左脚.
来自互联网
用作形容词 (adj.)
I'd rather live in this old house with all its inconveniences than in one of those pokey bungalows where you haven't room to swing a cat. 尽管诸多不便，我宁愿住在这幢老房子里，也不愿住到那种狭小的平房里，在那里你连转身的地方都没有。
I am impatient with people who are always pokey about getting things done. 我对于做事慢吞吞的人感到很不耐烦。
