Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pocky adv.

also pockily
[pocky adj.]

a negative intensifier, lit. ‘syphilitically’.

[UK]Weakest goeth to the Wall line 250: These French mens feete haue a pockie strong sent.
[UK]Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 9: Are they so dry in the Suburbs? Yes: pockily dry.
[Ire]Head Hic et Ubique V iv: Why, thou art ham-shrunk, and broken-winded too. Don’t thy bones ache pockily?