pokey

• 美国英语形容词，用来形容某物非常缓慢、很小或很狭窄拥挤。

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.

   慢吞吞的

   • 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.

   同义词behindhanddilatorylaggardlanguidlethargicslowsluggishtardytorpidunhurried

   反义词briskfastquickrapidspeedyswift

2. Small, cramped, and insignificantB2informalamerican

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

   狭小简陋

   • 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.

   同义词crampeddingydismaldullinsignificantnarrowpokysmallsqualidtinyunremarkable

   反义词commodiousspacious

• 名词，指用于关押被政府依法拘留者、候审被告或服刑罪犯的矫正机构，即监狱。也常作俚语泛指牢房或拘留所。

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.

   监狱

   • 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.

   同义词canclinkhoosegowjailjointjuglockupprisonslammer