English

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Etymology

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From rook +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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rooky (not comparable)

  1. full of rooks.
  2. misty; gloomy.
  3. (UK, slang, obsolete) rascally, rakish, scampish.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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