'Hooky' definitions:
Definition of 'Hooky'
From: GCIDE
- Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hooky'
From: GCIDE
- Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), n. [Written also hookey.] [Cf. Hook, v. t., 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and "hooky," and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson Smith. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'hooky'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscondence,
- absence,
- absence without leave,
- absentation,
- absenteeism,
- absenting,
- AWOL,
- cut,
- day off,
- default,
- departure,
- disappearance,
- escape,
- excused absence,
- fleeing,
- French leave,
- furlough,
- holiday,
- leave,
- leave of absence,
- leaving,
- nonappearance,
- nonattendance,
- running away,
- sabbatical leave,
- sick leave,
- truancy,
- truantism,
- unexcused absence,
- vacation