Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pokey \Pok"ey\, a.
   See {Poky}.

Source : WordNet®

pokey
     adj 1: wasting time [syn: {dilatory}, {laggard}, {poky}]
     2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college";
        "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: {jerkwater},
         {one-horse}, {poky}]
     n : a slang term for jail