Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to:

Entertainment

  • Pokey (Mario), a recurring enemy from the Super Mario series
  • Pokey (Gumby character), a character from the Gumby television series
  • Pokey the Penguin, a surrealistic online comic strip and its eponymous title character
  • Pokey Minch (Porky Minch), a character in the Super NES video game EarthBound (Mother 2), and the Pig King in Mother 3
  • The Poky Little Puppy, a fictional character whose name is sometimes shortened to just Poky
  • Poky (Yoko Tsuno), a character in comic album series Yoko Tsuno
  • Poky (device), a casino gambling machine
  • Slot machines (Australian slang: pokies)
  • Pokey, the nickname for "Clyde", the orange ghost, in the arcade game Pac-Man

People

Nickname

  • Pokey Allen (1943–1996), football player and head coach
  • Pokey Chatman (born 1969), Women's National Basketball Association general manager and head coach
  • Pokey LaFarge (born 1983), American musician and songwriter
  • Pokey Reddick (born 1964), retired National Hockey League goaltender
  • Pokey Reese (born 1973), former Major League Baseball player
  • Lillian Watson (born 1950), American former world record holder in swimming
  • Ontaria Wilson (born 1999), gridiron football player

Surname

  • Diana Pokie (born 1979), politician in Suriname
  • Gregory Pokie (born 1987), footballer in Suriname; see Suriname national football team

Science and technology

  • POKEY, a digital audio chip in Atari 8-bit computers and many arcade games
  • Pokey, several species of Poecilotheria, a genus of spiders
  • Poky, a reference distribution of the Yocto Project

Other uses

  • Prison (slang: Pokey)
  • Nipple poking or pokie, an erect nipple visible beneath clothing
  • Pokey Award, by the Straphangers Campaign, for bus routes in New York City, US

See also

  • Big Pokey (1974–2023), American rapper
  • Poke (disambiguation)
  • Poki (disambiguation)