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hooky

[hook-ee]

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noun

unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.

Also, hookey.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; perhaps alteration of phrase hook it escape, make off

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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adjective, hook·i·er, hook·i·est.

full of hooks.

hook-shaped.

Origin:
1545–55; hook¹ + -y¹

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hooky or hookey (ˈhʊkɪ)

—n
	informal chiefly (US), (Canadian), (NZ) truancy, usually from school (esp in the phrase play hooky)

[C20: perhaps from hook it to escape]

hookey or hookey

—n

[C20: perhaps from hook it to escape]

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Word Origin & History

hooky

1848, Amer.Eng. (New York City), from Du. hoekje "hide and seek," or from hook it, 14c., "make off, run away," originally "depart, proceed."

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Idioms & Phrases

hooky

see play hooky.