Synonyms for hooky
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hoo k-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʊk i |
Définition of hooky
Origin :- also hookey, in the truant sense, 1848, American English (New York City), from Dutch hoekje "hide and seek;" or else from hook it, attested since 14c. as "make off, run away," originally "depart, proceed."
- noun cut
- He sat there stunned until Hooky began licking at his scuffed fingers.
- Extract from : « The Hoofer » by Walter M. Miller
- Or your hooky neck, or your two knees is black with knocking one on the other?
- Extract from : « The Well of the Saints » by J. M. Synge
- He invented a kind of home-study "hooky" to break the monotony.
- Extract from : « The Fourth R » by George Oliver Smith
- My mother was well on to fifty when I gave her that chop, and she got her hooky finger for life.
- Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
- Then there were atoms with rough surfaces, "hooky" surfaces, and these stuck together and formed solids.
- Extract from : « The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) » by J. Arthur Thomson
- Nothing but a few words from a mutt who must have spent most of his time playin' hooky when he went to school.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Race » by Stanley R. Matthews
- I was overflowing with spirits and arrogance, and began to play "hooky" so often that I practically quit school about this time.
- Extract from : « The Autobiography of a Thief » by Hutchins Hapgood
- His coal-black, glossy hair commanded and obtained her admiration, and she found his hooky nose to be handsome.
- Extract from : « The Eustace Diamonds » by Anthony Trollope
- Is seated straddling across one of the tables, on which he is beating time to the band with a hooky stick.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 5, 1841 » by Various
- Hooky Crewe was driver—so called because an iron hook was his substitute for a right arm.
- Extract from : « Auld Licht Idyls » by J. M. Barrie
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- all shook up
- bait hook
- bait the hook
- baits hook
- be on tenterhooks
- billhook
- by hook or crook
- cant hook
- Captain Hook
- captain hooks
- cast one's hook
- gat hooked
- gat off the hook
- get hooked
- get hooks into
- get off the hook
- gets hook
- gets off hook
- gets off the hook
- hook
- hook and ladder
- hook ball
- hook on
- hook up with
- hookah
- hooked
- hooked up
- hooker
- hookey player
- hooky
- let off hook
- let off the hook
- letted the hook
- letting the hook
- mud hook
- off the hook
- on tenterhooks
- on the hook
- play hooky
- shook up
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