1894 Brewer’s / P / Poky
Cramped, narrow, confined; as, a poky corner. Also poor and shabby.
“The ladies were in their pokiest old head gear.”—Thackeray: The Newcomes, chap. lvii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.