What's the difference between pokey and poley?

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?

Poley


Definition:

  • (n.) See Poly.
  • (a.) Without horns; polled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ian Poley is a former semi-professional rugby player who is now in his 13th year of teaching at Pencoed school , Bridgend.
  • (2) Trapdoor fractures of the floor of the orbit were first described in 1965 by Soll and Poley.
  • (3) Using the modified Poley method, it was possible to demonstrate the compression mark in corpses even when post-mortem changes were advanced.
  • (4) A modified Poley's acid fuchsin-methyl green stain was used to demonstrate ligature marks in tissues taken at autopsy.

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