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Pocky

Pocky

1 6.5
A thin biscuit stick covered in chocolate or other sweet flavor
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːki/
: Pocky
  • At the party, everyone loved the Pocky snacks I brought to share.

Yeah, we were really addicted to Pocky and it has a lot of carbs.

Examples

  • His big pocky nose gleamed too.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • - Down the table and in the pocky.

    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

  • We had a lot of fun; we had a lot of pocky.

    Blog text (8)

  • We also got some chocolate bars, Twix, Kit, Kats, Hershey's, Snickers, the best got some Pocky if you want.

  • The Leager Ladies (women attached to the camp) had no sooner lost their Spanish Dons but found themselves as well entertained by the French, whose camp they traded in, giving the monsieurs as large a share of the "pocky spoils" within their own lines as the Spanish had (Lawson, 1967: 26).

    Academic text (2014)

  • I bought some Pocky sticks coated in chocolate to enjoy while watching a movie.

  • My friend brought a variety of Pocky flavors to our picnic, and we all tried them.

Synonyms

mochi
vsPocky
2 6.9

A soft sticky rice cake from Japan often eaten at festivals

is a thin crunchy stick coated with chocolate rather than a soft rice cake
sugary snack
vsPocky
2 1.0

A small sweet food high in sugar eaten between meals as a treat

is a thin stick biscuit coated with chocolate rather than any sweet treat

Surface Forms

Pocky singular
Pockies plural

Etymology

Pocky is the name of a thin Japanese snack and comes from a sound like pok you hear when you break the biscuit stick, like a 'snap'. So thinking of that 'pok' sound helps you remember it is a thin, crunchy stick coated in sweet chocolate or fruit flavor.