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hookey
(mass) | hookey
- nezmysel |
hookey
(encz) | hookey,nesmysl n: Zdeněk Brož |
hookey
(gcide) | Hockey \Hock"ey\, n. [From Hook, n.]
1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks
curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small
object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
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2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and
hawkey.]
[1913 Webster] |
Hookey
(gcide) | Hookey \Hook"ey\, n.
1. See Hockey.
[1913 Webster]
2. Same as hooky, n..
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hookey
(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.] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
Hookey
(gcide) | Hockey \Hock"ey\, n. [From Hook, n.]
1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks
curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small
object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
[1913 Webster]
2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and
hawkey.]
[1913 Webster]Hookey \Hook"ey\, n.
1. See Hockey.
[1913 Webster]
2. Same as hooky, n..
[1913 Webster]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.] |
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