What's the difference between jokey and pokey?

Jokey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Users discover that devices are suddenly answering back or misbehaving before the revelation that a jokey ghost has been placed in the machine.
  • (2) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
  • (3) Michel explained: "My wife is English and Spanish so … " Jay suggested to Michel he understood "the value of human interaction, whether it's by jokey text message, warm text message, mobile conversation or face-to-face meeting.
  • (4) Also, in South Africa, as in Australia, another huge Nando's market, Nando's is marketed as a jokey brand.
  • (5) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
  • (6) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
  • (7) Green and Wallace used to have a long-running jokey argument along these lines, about whether Wallace should allow his "inner sap" into his prose.
  • (8) He did his best to keep it informal and jokey but he was finding it harder and harder to pick someone out who would ask him a tame gimme.
  • (9) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
  • (10) In comparison, mine was comparatively mild and merely slightly jokey."
  • (11) He has also followed his father in being somewhat "jokey" in person while retaining a set of "sternly puritanical" principles.
  • (12) Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill – the drag queen, gay icon and now national treasure who was the yes campaign’s ace card in the referendum – tells a wonderful story about meeting Madonna: “Her default setting is jokey cunt.” His dress is fabulous: a glitter ball stuffed in a Coca-Cola bottle.
  • (13) He is often portrayed as the classic "serious clown" whose intense, driven private personality is at odds with his public image as a jokey, happy-go-lucky talkshow host.
  • (14) The songs are celebrated for the cheerful candour of their intimacy, with the 2009 single Not Fair bemoaning an ex-boyfriend's premature ejaculation, while Alfie, a hit from her 2006 debut album, was a jokey hymn to her irritation with her stoner baby brother Alfie .
  • (15) Posting a jokey picture of herself pretending to throttle Cowell, she wrote: "GUESS WHAT!!
  • (16) 8.45am GMT IDF jokes on Twitter go down badly The IDF is attracting criticism for the jokey tone of updates by some of its members on Twitter, amid the bloodshed.
  • (17) In his jokey quips and famous "top 10" lists Letterman and his team of writers have rarely pulled their punches.
  • (18) The Batman movies of the 1990s were camp and jokey; the Dark Knight movies, appearing a decade later, were not.
  • (19) Silver!” chips in Ringo, in a jokey stage-whisper.
  • (20) His classroom feels like a teenage bedroom, with a "No diving" sign by the window and various jokey posters on the packed walls, including a laminated teabag (an in-joke with a previous class) and a shrine to a former head girl who bagged 11 A*s. It turns out Burton, 30, really was once in a "rubbish band" – a subject of much fascination among the pupils – but has taught at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, since he qualified as a teacher.

Pokey


Definition:

  • (a.) See Poky.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1.24pm BST An email: "Re your mentioning Jim White Day, Jim gets his barnet cut in the same pokey barbers as I do in Richmond.
  • (2) I've previously stood in the pokey bed chamber where it is thought William Shakepeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the grander birthplace of Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace and the cramped abode where Stan Laurel breathed his first in Ulverston, Cumbria.
  • (3) Hocking no longer lives in that pokey apartment, but then she's no longer a struggling would-be author.
  • (4) What Ms Sturgeon does require to be told is that many of the rest of us have not thus far encountered a spell in the pokey for assorted concealed delinquencies only through fortunate circumstance and the prayers of countless grannies, aunties and mums.
  • (5) His name is commemorated in a pokey square under the monstrous Stratford Centre built after the clearances.
  • (6) For what it can cost to rent a room in a pokey flat, you've got the run of a 10-bedroom Victorian house that comes complete with a grand piano, conservatory and a willow tree.
  • (7) Their thesis is not new, but the evidence of pokey overpriced housing and endless unpaid internships piles up convincingly.
  • (8) In particular, what will his weird toe-pokey free-kick style do to this ball?

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