pocky

[pok-ee]

adjective

pockier, pockiest 

1. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or covered with pocks.

Other Word Forms

• pockily adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of pocky¹

First recorded in 1300–50, pocky is from the Middle English word pokky. See pock, -y ¹

Example Sentences

Candy Warehouse offers a wide variety of treats, ranging from popular Asian-brand sweets such as Hi-Chew, Mentos and Pocky biscuit sticks, to fruit-flavored Bon Bons and peanut brittle.

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“This sumo orange, with its pocky skin and bulbous shnozz.”

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With two sticks of Pocky as garnish, it only needed infinity more caramel sauce.

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At a Tzu Chi seminar in Alhambra in June, Shidong Liang, his wife and three children ate lunch before taking home a bag of chocolate-covered Pocky sticks and other snacks appealing to Chinese palates.

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Then she went in search of strawberry Pocky and dried squid.

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