Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having pocks or pustules; infected with an eruptive distemper, but particularly with syphilis.
  • Vile; rascally; mischievous; contemptible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

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  • adjective obsolete pox-ridden

Etymologies

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pock +‎ -y

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Examples

  • umm, randomly looking at your old stuffs after seeing ur magical science door 'em up happy fun paper tribute. btw its called pocky xD

    Tubbypaws Tubbypaws 2006

  • However, for guy who start eating pocky which is flavor on a stick, like chocolate and mixed almonds dipped – think a dipped cone but no ice cream to melt, beware a slight side effect: the ‘Pocky Experience.’

    Archive 2010-01-01 Elizabeth McClung 2010

  • However, for guy who start eating pocky which is flavor on a stick, like chocolate and mixed almonds dipped – think a dipped cone but no ice cream to melt, beware a slight side effect: the ‘Pocky Experience.’

    I am fevered and do the R word. Plus Intersex: 3 million USA women gagged by society, by us. Elizabeth McClung 2010

  • I tried making 'pocky' and even made a recipe from a British blog … yeah that failed because its hard to find exact substitutes of food items.

    The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed 2009

  • I tried making 'pocky' and even made a recipe from a British blog … yeah that failed because its hard to find exact substitutes of food items.

    The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed 2009

  • Durand-Greville in _La Nature_, November 24, 1900, that Lamarck was the first to observe the so-called pocky or festoon cloud, or mammato-cirrus cloud, which at rare intervals has been observed since his time. [

    Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

  • She turned to him, to his plain, pocky face, smiling at her.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • She turned to him, to his plain, pocky face, smiling at her.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • She turned to him, to his plain, pocky face, smiling at her.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • That I tried to collect a pocky three and six and you're after calling me a bomb thrower and terrorist?

    Confessions of an I.R.A. Terrorist 2010

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