Definition of Pocky

1. a. Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

Definition of Pocky

1. Adjective. (obsolete) pox-ridden ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pocky

1. covered with pocks [adj POCKIER, POCKIEST] : POCKILY [adv]

Medical Definition of Pocky

1. Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Origin: Pockier; Pockiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocky

pockier
pockiest
pockily
pockiness
pocking
pockmark
pockmarked
pockmarking
pockmarks
pockpit
pockpits
pocks
pockwood
pocky (current term)
poco
poco a poco
pococurante
pococurantes
pococurantism
pococurantisms
pocones
pocosen
pocosens
pocosin
pocosins
pocoson
pocosons
pocula

Literary usage of Pocky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of by Thomas Coventry, Samuel Hughes (1832)
"The words " pocky whore" are actionable. 1 Ld. Raym. 710. Clifton v. ... So, to say, '• thou art a pocky rascal," for it cannot by innuendo be made to mean, ..."

2. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"... And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire/1 The " pocky cloud " is an almost ..."

3. The London Medical Gazette (1842)
"... the vesicles are liable to be converted into pustules :• and this has needlessly been made a separate species of itch, scabies purulenta, pocky itch ..."

4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Day (1824)
"A pocky rogue, and for ought I know hath filled my bed with French pox. ... Go to thy pocky wife, her nose is eaten with pox, and thou art a pocky knave, ..."

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