pokey
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Like the movie, whose commercial and critical success suggests people approve, it’s pokey and self-serious and almost entirely devoid of humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024
Give me your losers and laggards, your pokey puppies who limbo right under rock-bottom expectations and then have to go home and lie down.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2024
One person’s methodical structuring is what another might deem pokey or too much effort for a piece of entertainment.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024
Family and adult-only fun include roller disco night and open skate hours with the hokey pokey, limbo and partner skate events.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
Then Vonetta and Fern started dancing and singing: “You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about.”
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
II: Body Language In 17th century England, the reigning Stuarts took increasingly to popping their political foes into the Tower of London and other pokeys, without bothering much with prosecutions or convictions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peaked shoes, chained to the knee, were not more ridiculous than the deep, wide sleeves commonly called pokeys, which were shaped like a bagpipe and were worn by all classes.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner
