"hooky" meaning in All languages combined

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        "3": "hoekje",
        "t": "nook, corner; 'spot to hide' in hide-and-seek"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch hoekje (“nook, corner; 'spot to hide' in hide-and-seek”)",
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        "2": "verstoppertje"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Attested in 1848 in New York City. Most likely from Dutch hoekje (“nook, corner; 'spot to hide' in hide-and-seek”). Formerly, \"hoekje spelen\" could be used to mean \"to play hide-and-seek\", though the common term for the game nowadays is verstoppertje.",
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      "expansion": "hooky (uncountable)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        }
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        {
          "word": "hooky-playing"
        },
        {
          "word": "play hooky"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Let's play hooky and go to the mall.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "Absence from school or work; truancy."
      ],
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          "school",
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          "work",
          "work"
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          "truancy",
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        {
          "word": "truancy"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhʊki/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookey"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookie"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊki"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hooky"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
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        "2": "hook",
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      "expansion": "hook + -y",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hook + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hookier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hookiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sew the hooky half of the Velcro on the inner side so that it doesn't pick up fluff.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, in The A.V. Club",
          "text": "At least the mostly instrumental kickoff “Long Tailed Winter Bird” offers a hooky acoustic guitar riff you can’t blame McCartney for hanging on to as long as he does.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Full of hooks (in any sense)."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "hook",
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        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Shaped like or resembling a hook; hooked."
      ],
      "id": "en-hooky-en-adj-zzxAzTmB",
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        [
          "hooked",
          "hooked"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Marnie Riches, The Girl Who Wouldn't Die",
          "text": "Start a thing in the street and attract attention to bags full of hooky gear? No. She was smarter than that.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Alan Tootill, Cole and the Clairvoyant, page 45",
          "text": "So I decided to put on my seediest voice and leer, and go round offering the traders the Cole line in cheap hooky goods.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dodgy; crooked; illicit."
      ],
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          "Dodgy",
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        ],
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          "crooked",
          "crooked"
        ],
        [
          "illicit",
          "illicit"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Dodgy; crooked; illicit."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhʊki/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookey"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookie"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊki"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hooky"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Dutch",
    "English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/ʊki"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hooky-playing"
    },
    {
      "word": "play hooky"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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        "t": "nook, corner; 'spot to hide' in hide-and-seek"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "verstoppertje"
      },
      "expansion": "verstoppertje",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Attested in 1848 in New York City. Most likely from Dutch hoekje (“nook, corner; 'spot to hide' in hide-and-seek”). Formerly, \"hoekje spelen\" could be used to mean \"to play hide-and-seek\", though the common term for the game nowadays is verstoppertje.",
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      "expansion": "hooky (uncountable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Let's play hooky and go to the mall.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Absence from school or work; truancy."
      ],
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          "school",
          "school"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "truancy",
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "truancy"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhʊki/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookey"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookie"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊki"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hooky"
}

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hook + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hookier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hookiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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      "args": {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sew the hooky half of the Velcro on the inner side so that it doesn't pick up fluff.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, in The A.V. Club",
          "text": "At least the mostly instrumental kickoff “Long Tailed Winter Bird” offers a hooky acoustic guitar riff you can’t blame McCartney for hanging on to as long as he does.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Full of hooks (in any sense)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hook",
          "hook"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Shaped like or resembling a hook; hooked."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hooked",
          "hooked"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Marnie Riches, The Girl Who Wouldn't Die",
          "text": "Start a thing in the street and attract attention to bags full of hooky gear? No. She was smarter than that.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Alan Tootill, Cole and the Clairvoyant, page 45",
          "text": "So I decided to put on my seediest voice and leer, and go round offering the traders the Cole line in cheap hooky goods.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dodgy; crooked; illicit."
      ],
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        [
          "Dodgy",
          "dodgy"
        ],
        [
          "crooked",
          "crooked"
        ],
        [
          "illicit",
          "illicit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Dodgy; crooked; illicit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhʊki/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookey"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "hookie"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊki"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hooky"
}