poky, poken

[Eng. pok (e); -y.] 1. Cramped, narrow, confined, musty; as, a poky corner. 2. Poor, shabby. "The ladies were in their pokiest old head-gear."Thackeray: New comes, ch. lvii. 3. Dull, stupid. pol-a-căn-thus, subst. [Gr. polys =many, and a kantha a thorn.] Palæont .: A genus of Scelidosauride (q.v.). It was sheathed in armor like the carapace of a tortoise or an armadillo. Found in the Oolite and the Wealden.