Hookey

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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}.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and "hooky,"
           and marbles, was all moonshine.          --F. Hopkinson
                                                    Smith.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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

  Hookey \Hook"ey\, n.
     1. See {Hockey}.
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     2. Same as {hooky}, n..
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