different between rocky vs pocky

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [????ki?]
• (UK) enPR: r?k'i, IPA^(key): /???ki/, [????ki?]
• (US) IPA^(key): [????ki]
• Rhymes: -?ki

Etymology 1

From rock (“to move back and forth”) +? -y.

Adjective

rocky (comparative rockier or more rocky, superlative rockiest or most rocky)

1. Unstable; easily rocked.

2. In the style of rock music.

   His new album is quite rocky.

3. (figuratively) Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.

   Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.

Derived terms

• rockily
• rockiness
• rocky chair

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rokky, equivalent to rock (“stone”) +? -y.

Adjective

rocky (comparative rockier or more rocky, superlative rockiest or most rocky)

1. Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.

   a rocky mountain

   a rocky shore

2. Like a rock.

   the rocky orb of a shield

3. (figuratively) Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• corky

English

Etymology

From pock +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

pocky (comparative more pocky, superlative most pocky)

1. 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.’