Hyphenation of pokey

Are you trying to hyphenate pokey? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

pokey

Definitions of pokey:

1.	A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
2.	Wasting time
3.	Small and remote and insignificant A jerkwater college Passed a series of poky little one-horse towns

Synonyms of pokey:

adj	dilatory, laggard, poky, slow
adj	jerkwater, one-horse, poky, provincial
noun	jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.