hookeyn.

Brit.

/ˈhʊki/, U.S.

/ˈhʊki/

Forms: Also hooky.

Etymology: Compare hook n.¹ Phrases 1, hook v. 6, 13, and hooky-crooky adj. and n.

1. to play hookey: to play truant. Also transferred. colloquial (chiefly North American).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > absence > be absent [verb (intransitive)] > absent oneself

to turn awaya1400

absenta1425

to play truant1560

truant1580

to take (a) French leave1751

to trig it1796

to play hookey1848

submarine1915

to take off1930

bunk1949

society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant

to play truant1560

mitch1580

mooch1622

to trig it1796

plunk1808

minch1836

wag1847

to play hookey1848

to hop the wag1861

to play (the) wag1861

to hook Jack1877

to bag school1934

to go on the hop1959

1848 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms

1866 Harper's Mag. May 779/1 Kate used to..entreat him not to get feruled, nor play ‘hookey’.

1867 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Drolleries 20 He would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thing he could do.

1883 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-boy ix. 47 They remembered that the geography lesson was a hard one, and so they played ‘hookey’.

1904 W. N. Harben Georgians vii. 77 ‘I sorter feel like playin' hookey myself,’ he admitted.

1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xii. 150 I'll play on them, too, when they gets home! Off playing hookey from work when we all of us aches from double shifts.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiv. 172 He's played hookey from the choir so often that the vicar told him..he would fire him out.

1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man iii. xi. 144 Such solitary contemplation during the office day..is regarded..as a form of hooky.

1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 98 ‘I like to play hooky now and then.’.. ‘You can't just call it hooky.’

1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Apr. 23/8 Youngsters who play hooky are..merely afraid of their classrooms.

2. U.S. by hookey and variants: (see quots.).

ΚΠ

c1845 J. K. Paulding & W. I. Paulding Noble Exile 114 By the living Hookey, this is a free country.

1890 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills 323 ‘A regular cave, by hooky!’ said the moral guide from Idaho.

3. blind hookey n. see blind adj. Compounds. Also figurative or transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others

laugh and lie down1522

mack1548

decoyc1555

pinionc1557

to beat the knave out of doors1570

imperial1577

prima vista1587

loadum1591

flush1598

prime1598

thirty-perforce1599

gresco1605

hole1621

my sow's pigged1621

slam1621

fox-mine-host1622

whipperginnie1622

crimpa1637

hundred1636

pinache1641

sequence1653

lady's hole1658

quebas1668

art of memory1674

costly colours1674

penneech1674

plain dealing1674

wit and reason1680

comet1685

lansquenet1687

incertain1689

macham1689

uptails1694

quinze1714

hoc1730

commerce1732

matrimonya1743

tredrille1764

Tom come tickle me1769

tresette1785

snitch'ems1798

tontine1798

blind hazard1816

all fives1838

short cards1845

blind hookey1852

sixty-six1857

skin the lamb1864

brisque1870

handicap1870

manille1874

forty-five1875

slobberhannes1877

fifteen1884

Black Maria1885

slapjack1887

seven-and-a-half1895

pit1904

Russian Bank1915

red dog1919

fan-tan1923

Pelmanism1923

Slippery Sam1923

go fish1933

Russian Banker1937

racing demon1938

pit-a-pat1947

scopa1965

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. iii. 85 The process of emigration was formerly—as compared with its present gradual perfection—a very blind-hooky kind of game.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 34/1 Blind Hookey, a leap in the dark; e.g., ‘Oh, it's Blind Hookey to attempt it.’

1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 286/2 It is..the common practice of politicians to play blind hookey with the great interests entrusted to them.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hookey
释义	hookeyn. Brit. /ˈhʊki/, U.S. /ˈhʊki/ Forms: Also hooky. Etymology: Compare hook n.¹ Phrases 1, hook v. 6, 13, and hooky-crooky adj. and n. 1. to play hookey: to play truant. Also transferred. colloquial (chiefly North American). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > be absent [verb (intransitive)] > absent oneself to turn awaya1400 absenta1425 to play truant1560 truant1580 to take (a) French leave1751 to trig it1796 to play hookey1848 submarine1915 to take off1930 bunk1949 society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant to play truant1560 mitch1580 mooch1622 to trig it1796 plunk1808 minch1836 wag1847 to play hookey1848 to hop the wag1861 to play (the) wag1861 to hook Jack1877 to bag school1934 to go on the hop1959 1848 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 1866 Harper's Mag. May 779/1 Kate used to..entreat him not to get feruled, nor play ‘hookey’. 1867 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Drolleries 20 He would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thing he could do. 1883 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-boy ix. 47 They remembered that the geography lesson was a hard one, and so they played ‘hookey’. 1904 W. N. Harben Georgians vii. 77 ‘I sorter feel like playin' hookey myself,’ he admitted. 1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xii. 150 I'll play on them, too, when they gets home! Off playing hookey from work when we all of us aches from double shifts. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiv. 172 He's played hookey from the choir so often that the vicar told him..he would fire him out. 1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man iii. xi. 144 Such solitary contemplation during the office day..is regarded..as a form of hooky. 1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 98 ‘I like to play hooky now and then.’.. ‘You can't just call it hooky.’ 1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Apr. 23/8 Youngsters who play hooky are..merely afraid of their classrooms. 2. U.S. by hookey and variants: (see quots.). ΚΠ c1845 J. K. Paulding & W. I. Paulding Noble Exile 114 By the living Hookey, this is a free country. 1890 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills 323 ‘A regular cave, by hooky!’ said the moral guide from Idaho. 3. blind hookey n. see blind adj. Compounds. Also figurative or transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. iii. 85 The process of emigration was formerly—as compared with its present gradual perfection—a very blind-hooky kind of game. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 34/1 Blind Hookey, a leap in the dark; e.g., ‘Oh, it's Blind Hookey to attempt it.’ 1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 286/2 It is..the common practice of politicians to play blind hookey with the great interests entrusted to them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1845
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