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hooky

English

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: hookey, hookie

Etymology 1

Attested in 1848 in New York City. Most likely from Dutch hoekje (“nook, corner; 'spot to hide' in hide-and-go-seek”). Formerly, "hoekje spelen" could be used to mean "to play hide-and-go-seek", though the common term for the game nowadays is verstoppertje.

Noun

hooky (uncountable)

  1. Absence from school or work. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
  • play hooky

Etymology 2

From hook +? -y.

Adjective

hooky (comparative hookier, superlative hookiest)

  1. Full of hooks.
  2. Shaped like a hook.

Anagrams

  • hokyo

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kooky

English

Etymology

kook +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ku?ki/, /?k?ki/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?kuki/
  • Rhymes: -u?ki
  • Hyphenation: koo?ky

Adjective

kooky (comparative kookier, superlative kookiest)

  1. (slang) Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
  2. (surfing) Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

Alternative forms

  • kookie

Synonyms

  • bonkers
  • kookish
  • nuts
  • outlandish
  • wacky

Antonyms

  • conventional
  • mainstream
  • normal
  • ordinary
  • straight
  • uneccentric

Related terms

  • kook
  • kookily
  • kookish
  • kookishness
  • kookology

Translations

Anagrams

  • Kokyo, Kyoko, koyok

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