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pockier

pockier is the comparative form of pocky.

Meaning of pocky

Adjective

pocky (comparative more pocky or pockier, superlative most pocky or pockiest)

  1. Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.
    • 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 [...]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...

Questions about pockier

What is pockier the comparative form of?
Pockier is the comparative form of pocky.

Words near pockier in the dictionary

  1. pockettings
  2. pocketwards
  3. pocketwatch
  4. pocketwatches
  5. pockety
  6. pockier
  7. pockiest
  8. pockily
  9. pockiness
  10. pocking
  11. pockings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pockier (page history and authors); pocky (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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