pocky
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒki
Adjective
pocky (comparative more pocky, superlative most pocky)
- Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- 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.’