The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus: Man in Gumby costume tries to rob 7-Eleven; could end up in the pokey
Man in Gumby costume tries to rob 7-Eleven; could end up in the pokey
This meaning of pokey is given by MacMillan Dictionary (American) moving or doing something very slowly, in a way that is annoying. This pokey computer is driving me crazy! So the sense of “get pokey” referring to the hyperactive child is to become slow, quiet. The above connotation of pokey (also poky) is from the mid-19th century according to The Dictionary of American Slang: Slow ...
In northern Ireland the Ice cream man is called a Pokey man and you get poke from him -It could refer back to the fact that there was a circular bar of Ice cream, with a 'paper card' wrapped around the Ice cream to protect it, and you had to 'poke it out' to get it into the cone-- this was before the scoop made an appearance and well before the ...
If you do the hokey pokey, you’re doing the hokey-pokey dance. The hyphens tie the words together, so that the hokey-pokey dance is distinguishable from (say) a hokey dance being done in the pokey.
If it's just grammar that you're concerned about, note that people can "do" the hokey pokey. Just about any verb would be grammatical in that position - run, present, share, etc.
I remember seeing such a word before, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I'm googling and having no luck. The classic web comic Pokey the Penguin used this technique quite a bit.
SAN DIEGO — A man in a Gumby suit attempted to rob a 7-Eleven store but became nervous and escaped with only some loose change, the San Diego Police Department said Wednesday. The unusual robbery ...