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		zcrackerz on Dec 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux ... You've never heard of a slow-poke? Similar usage, you can be pokey or you can be a slow-poke, both mean slow. The "small" definition is new to me. Seems like difference between British/American English.

shakna on Dec 2, 2019 [–]

> You've never heard of a slow-poke?

Sure, but that doesn't mean "slow slow". The poke part of that that means something similar to "yoke".

A slowpoke is something that's slow and dragging you down with it.

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