different between pucky vs pocky

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pucky (uncountable)

From pock +? -y.

pocky (comparative more pocky, superlative most pocky)

Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic. [from 14th c.]
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1:
  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.’

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