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Webster 1913 Edition
Pocky
Pock′y
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Pockier
; sup
erl.
Pockiest
.] Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.
Bp. Hall.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pocky
POCK'Y
,Adj.
1.
Vile; rascally; mischievous; contemptible. [In vulgar use.]Definition 2024
pocky
pocky
English
Adjective
pocky (comparative more pocky, superlative most pocky)
- Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic. [from 14th c.]
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act V scene 1:
- Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many pocky corpses that will scarce hold the laying in) 'a will last you some eight year [...]
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, IV:
- ‘You Damn'd Confounded Pocky Whore, I am glad we are met, for now will I give you as many Stripes as I've taken Pills, Bolus's, and other Hellish Slip-slops on your Account.’
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act V scene 1: