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poky

 adjective
     
pok‧y , pokey informal
1 British English too small and not very pleasant or comfortable:
The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
2 American English doing things very slowly, especially in a way that is annoying:
I got behind some poky driver on the freeway.
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