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- noun The state or condition of being
poky .
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Examples
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Totally agree with the fact that the "pokiness" is attributed to politics more so than anything else.
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The White House can't really blame Senate pokiness for the gaps since only the last two of these have even been named yet.
Todd Moss: Can We Get an Africa Lead at USAID Already? Todd Moss 2011
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Siri is built for the iPhone 3GS, but I got it to perform adequately (despite occasionally pokiness and a couple of crashes) on an iPhone 3G.
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The White House can't really blame Senate pokiness for the gaps since only the last two of these have even been named yet.
Todd Moss: Can We Get an Africa Lead at USAID Already? Todd Moss 2011
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Yet further evidence of my pokiness: I can also report that another objective has been accomplished.
Another Milestone 2007
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The region beyond the river existed, for the Durham ladies, only as the unmapped environment of the Bon Marche; and Nannie Durham's exclamation on the pokiness of the streets and the dulness of the houses showed Durham, with a start, how far he had already travelled from the family point of view.
Madame de Treymes. 1906
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The region beyond the river existed, for the Durham ladies, only as the unmapped environment of the Bon Marche; and Nannie Durham's exclamation on the pokiness of the streets and the dulness of the houses showed Durham, with a start, how far he had already travelled from the family point of view.
Madame De Treymes Edith Wharton 1899
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We must never let our spouse see how much their pokiness irritates us.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com J. Richard Kulerski 2011
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The pokiness extends to the App World, where Sprint's 3G will do the phone no favors in making you feel like downloading a single app is a chore.
Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2011
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The pokiness extends to the App World, where Sprint's 3G will do the phone no favors in making you feel like downloading a single app is a chore.
Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2011
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