Difference between Poky and Provincial

What is the difference between Poky and Provincial?

Poky as a noun is a gambling device based on the card game, poker while Provincial as a noun is a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

Poky

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A gambling device based on the card game, poker jail

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: slow small and cramped

Provincial

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.limited in outlook; narrow

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.(Roman Catholic Church): A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.A country bumpkin.

Example sentence: The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.

We hope you now know whether to use Poky or Provincial in your sentence.

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