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"
例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
Life is like crossing the sea, we meet in the same poky boat. 生命有如渡过一重大海,我们相遇在这同一的狭船里。
He set up in business fifty years ago in a tiny, poky shop in London. 50年前他在伦敦开了一个简陋的小铺子做生意。
This bedroom is too poky for me. 我这间卧室太窝憋。
I wish you wouldn't be so poky when you're getting ready. 希望你做准备时不要这么慢腾腾。
经典引文
If religion is going to make me so poky, I shall put it off.