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\\\"
造句
用作形容詞(adj.)
Life is like crossing the sea, we meet in the same poky boat. 生命有如渡過一重大海，我們相遇在這同一的狹船里。
He set up in business fifty years ago in a tiny, poky shop in London. 50年前他在倫敦開了一個簡陋的小鋪子做生意。
This bedroom is too poky for me. 我這間臥室太窩憋。
I wish you wouldn\\\'t be so poky when you\\\'re getting ready. 希望你做準備時不要這么慢騰騰。
常用短語
a poky hole of a place
非常窄小的地方...
組詞
If religion is going to make me so poky, I shall put it off.