From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpokypok‧y, pokey /ˈpəʊki $ ˈpoʊ-/ adjective informal 1 British EnglishSMALL too small and not very pleasant or comfortable The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.► see thesaurus at small2 American EnglishSLOW doing things very slowly, especially in a way that is annoying I got behind some poky driver on the freeway.
Examples from the Corpus
poky• Is it a harmful geographic stereotype to suggest that southerners are a little bit poky?• Carpenters worked in the hallway, men with close-cropped hair and poky drawls, calling to each other under the steam ducts.• We used to live in this poky flat in the middle of London when I was very little.• She would have to move back into that horrible poky little hotel.• Never again would anyone offer her an iron bed in a dark poky little room.• She explains a lot about Washington in general and our poky political metabolism in particular.• They weren't poky, they were cosy, crammed with our toys. 