Definitions for hooky

hooky hook·y

Spelling: [hoo k-ee]
IPA: /ˈhʊk i/

Hooky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in hooky (hkooy).

Definitions for hooky

noun

  1. unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky):

adjective

  1. full of hooks.
  2. hook-shaped.

Origin of hooky

1840-50, Americanism; perhaps alteration of phrase hook it escape, make off

Examples for hooky

He sat there stunned until hooky began licking at his scuffed fingers.

Nothing but a few words from a mutt who must have spent most of his time playin' hooky when he went to school.

I was overflowing with spirits and arrogance, and began to play "hooky" so often that I practically quit school about this time.

Or your hooky neck, or your two knees is black with knocking one on the other?

Is seated straddling across one of the tables, on which he is beating time to the band with a hooky stick.

His coal-black, glossy hair commanded and obtained her admiration, and she found his hooky nose to be handsome.

Then there were atoms with rough surfaces, "hooky" surfaces, and these stuck together and formed solids.

hooky indicates an inability to create stories that take place in and around school and, therefore, a dearth of inspiration.

My mother was well on to fifty when I gave her that chop, and she got her hooky finger for life.

He invented a kind of home-study "hooky" to break the monotony.

Word Value for hooky
Scrable

15

Words with friends

13

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