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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: hooky (0.00828 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to hooky.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: hooky
hooky
n : failure to attend (especially school) [syn:
truancy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Hooky
Hooky
\Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), a.
Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
[1913 Webster]
Hooky
\Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), n. [Written also
hookey.] [Cf.
Hook, v. t., 3.]
A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be
truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from
school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of
their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent
from duty for frivolous reasons.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and
“hooky,”
and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson
Smith.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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