Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in rooks; inhabited by rooks: as, a rooky tree.
- [The above quotation is by some commentators held to bear the meaning of rooky.]
- Same as
roky. Brockett .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Misty; gloomy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective full of
rooks - adjective
misty ;gloomy .
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Examples
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No "rooky" fresh to the ranks is the butt of so many jokes and such biting sarcasm as the young officer is subjected to when he takes his place as a leader of men.
The Amateur Army Patrick MacGill 1926
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In my spare time I wrote several articles dealing with the life of the soldier from the stage of raw "rooky" to that of finished fighter.
The Amateur Army Patrick MacGill 1926
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A "rooky," who had joined the company, stood on the dock disconsolately.
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The sky had seemed to darken, the air to thicken, the birds to gather in the "rooky" wood.
Jeremy Hugh Walpole 1912
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Again, it took place in northern BC and a rooky copy said it was self-defense because he was being choked.
Who Watches the Watchmen: Police Investigating Themselves « Colleen Anderson 2009
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If what we have had was "experience" then I will take a rooky!
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When Macbeth says "light thickens and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood", we get an astonishing image of deepening night; here the rapidly-spoken lines pass virtually unnoticed.
Macbeth - review Michael Billington 2010
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Pete's was the pie country, the rolling meadows of Middle England where foxes trot along the edges of ancient hedges before disappearing into rooky woods, and hilltops boast the spires of Norman churches, marking villages with names such as Branston and Stilton.
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Pete's was the pie country, the rolling meadows of Middle England where foxes trot along the edges of ancient hedges before disappearing into rooky woods, and hilltops boast the spires of Norman churches, marking villages with names such as Branston and Stilton.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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He instructs that all rooky presidents get roughed up by the Intelligence Community.
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