Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The menhaden.

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  • adjective Of or relating to school.
  • adjective Studious, involving study.
  • noun Alternative spelling of schoolie.

Etymologies

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school +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Hmmm. I like autumn too, it makes me feel "schooly" and nostalgic, and cosy, but I don't like flu season starting.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

  • "schooly," and that the very fact that Jean liked the Hostelry would be proof positive that she, Tony, would not like it.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • I bet half of those parents who will keep their children out of schooly on tuesday have their TV's at home turned on when Obama is speaking and let their children watch it.

    Laura Bush defends Obama school speech 2009

  • THe delivery was fantastic and I think it is a humorous-if-high-schooly line.

    Drag me to Diablo 2009

  • The one I've had the most problem with being a schooly in a previous life:3.

    Break's over! (back on your head) 2010

  • The one I've had the most problem with being a schooly in a previous life:3.

    Break's over! (back on your head) 2010

  • "I don't want to sound business-schooly," Mr. Wood says, shirt-sleeved but in a perfectly knotted tie, his blue suit jacket draped on a chair in his office a few steps away.

    Easing The Getty Into Young Adulthood 2009

  • Instead of making dinner and doing my usual after schooly things, I googled my way to the main number for Lionsgate, the video distributor of this film - and left a message for CEO John Feltheimer asking him to take them down.

    Jill Soloway: Remove the Rating for Captivity 2008

  • You enter past a row of hammocks, there's usually live music playing, and then you enter the domain of the youngest, hippest, most art-schooly dealers from around the world.

    Archive 2008-12-01 The Year in Pictures 2008

  • You enter past a row of hammocks, there's usually live music playing, and then you enter the domain of the youngest, hippest, most art-schooly dealers from around the world.

    Miami, Day 2 - Through the Looking-glass The Year in Pictures 2008

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