booky

adj
/ˈbʊki//ˈbyːki/

Etymology

Perhaps from book (“to flee, leave hurriedly”) + -y.

  1. inherited from *bōks
  2. inherited from *bōk
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. suffixed as booky — “book + y

Definitions

  1. Bookish.

  2. Treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy.

    • Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
  3. Strange, scary, suspicious.

    • I didn't want to verbalise my fears about a polar bear in the woods, because I would sound like a fruitloop. / Then Flora spoke up. ‘Selkirk's got a point.’ / ‘Yeah,’ agreed Turk of all people, ‘that jungle is bare booky, fam.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for booky. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA