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rooky

adj

Etymology

From rook + -y.

  1. derived from *kerk-✻ — “crow, raven”
  2. inherited from *hrōkaz✻
  3. inherited from *hrōk✻
  4. inherited from hrōc
  5. inherited from rok
  6. suffixed as rooky — “rook + y”

Definitions

  1. full of rooks.

  2. misty

    misty; gloomy.

  3. rascally, rakish, scampish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rooky. 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