Holey

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  holey \holey\ adj.
     having pores or holes.
  
     Syn: porous.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  holey
       adj : allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely
             unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn:
              {porous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "holey":
     apertured, crible, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels,
     fenestrated, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, honeycombed, in rags,
     in shreds, in tatters, like Swiss cheese, patchy, peppered,
     perforate, perforated, pierced, ragged, raggedy, ratty, riddled,
     scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, shot through, slotted, tacky,
     tattered, tatty, torn, windowed