different between nakey vs wakey

English

Etymology

Diminutive +? -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?ki

Adjective

nakey (comparative more nakey, superlative most nakey)

1. (informal or childish or endearing) naked

Anagrams

• Kanye, Kenya, Yanke

English

Etymology

wake +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?ki/

Noun

wakey (plural not attested)

1. (military, slang) The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
   • 2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane

     'You beauty, only 364 and a wakey to go,' the countdown had begun and would continue, as few days passed without someone calling the time. I spared a thought for our temporary enemy whose tour would endure to the end of the war […]

   • 2010, Ian McGibbon, New Zealand's Vietnam War (page 542)

     Morale was also usually high, helped by the men's recognition that their service in Vietnam had strict limits – one year, or, to use a soldiers' expression of the time, 364 days and a 'wakey' (the day the men woke to prepare to fly out).

   • 2011, Richard "Barney" Bigwood, We Were Reos: Australian Infantry Reinforcements in VIETNAM (page 47)

     When you became a 'short timer' (20 days and a wakey) you delighted in sticking it up to the new arrivals.

2. (slang) Shortening of Wakefield

See also

• wakey wakey

Anagrams

• weaky

Meriam

Noun

wakey

1. thigh