pokey

• صفة تُستخدم في الإنجليزية الأمريكية لوصف شيء بطيء جدًا أو صغير أو ضيق.

An adjective used in American English to describe something that is very slow, small, or cramped.

1. Slow or sluggishB2informalamerican

   Characterized by a lack of speed or urgency; tending to waste time.

   بطيء

   • The service at that restaurant was really pokey.
   • He's always so pokey in the morning before his coffee.
   • Don't be so pokey, we're going to be late.

   المرادفاتbehindhanddilatorylaggardlanguidlethargicslowsluggishtardytorpidunhurried

   الأضدادbriskfastquickrapidspeedyswift

2. Small, cramped, and insignificantB2informalamerican

   Describing a place that is small, confined, and often remote or unremarkable.

   صغير وضيق

   • They lived in a pokey little town in the middle of nowhere.
   • The office was a pokey room with barely enough space for a desk.
   • He grew up in a pokey apartment above a shop.

   المرادفاتcrampeddingydismaldullinsignificantnarrowpokysmallsqualidtinyunremarkable

   الأضدادcommodiousspacious

• اسم يشير إلى مؤسسة إصلاحية تُحتجز فيها الأشخاص قانونيًا بأمر الحكومة، سواء كانوا متهمين ينتظرون المحاكمة أو محكومين عليهم يقضون عقوبتهم. ويُستخدم أيضًا للإشارة إلى مكان ضيق أو حبس.

A noun referring to 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.

1. Jail or PrisonB2informalamerican

   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.

   السجن

   • He spent a night in the pokey for disorderly conduct.
   • The sheriff locked him up in the local pokey.
   • After the trial, he was sent to the pokey for six months.

   المرادفاتcanclinkhoosegowjailjointjuglockupprisonslammer