What does it mean when someone calls you "pokey"?

Question

Someone emailed me and called me pokey. I don't know if that's a nickname or just something bad.

Answer 1

it means that you r cute as a button !! :)
OR
that you are slow like in either movement or responding to something

Answer 2

POkey means that you are slow to answer or take your time before answering a question. It could also be a way of saying you are too slow to ask them out or ask them to do things. Sometimes it could mean you don't always return calls, etc.

Answer 3

In the south pokey just means slow, like "quit being so pokey."

Answer 4

I believe when you are being called "pokey" someone is trying to tell you that you are slow. Probably derived from the American saying: slow poke.

Answer 5

Pokey usually is cute nickname refering to you as being slow at something...it's nothing bad. lol

Answer 6

Slow

Answer 7

A "Pokey" in slang means prison, a cramped place or (in Australian slang) a fruit-gambling machine.

Answer 8

pokey means "slow" like you take your sweet time.

Answer 9

I always thought it meant you were not speedy, you just kinda "poked" along, like a slow poke. There used to be a candy called a "slow poke" that took a long, long time to eat.

Answer 10

I've always known it to mean slow at responding or doing something.

Answer 11

I agree. I always thought it meant one who moves slowly.

Were you slow in responding to previous email?

It's used jokingly; it is not a mean term. :-))