pokey

• Adjectif utilisé en anglais américain pour décrire quelque chose de très lent, de petit ou d'étroit.

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.

   lent, traînard

   • 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.

   Synonymesbehindhanddilatorylaggardlanguidlethargicslowsluggishtardytorpidunhurried

   Antonymesbriskfastquickrapidspeedyswift

2. Small, cramped, and insignificantB2informalamerican

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

   exigu et insignifiant

   • 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.

   Synonymescrampeddingydismaldullinsignificantnarrowpokysmallsqualidtinyunremarkable

   Antonymescommodiousspacious

• Nom familier désignant une prison, un lieu de détention ou un établissement pénitentiaire où sont enfermées des personnes en attente de jugement ou purgeant une peine.

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.

   Prison

   • 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.

   Synonymescanclinkhoosegowjailjointjuglockupprisonslammer