adj
Meaning 1
Bookish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
booky
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Pronunciation
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/ˈbʊki/
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homophone: bookie
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rhymes with -ʊki
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Multicultural-London-English: /ˈbyːki/
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rhymes with -uːki
adj
Meaning 2
Treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dastardly, ratlike, viperous, booky, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart, false-hearted, guiled, guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal, infidelitous, insidious, Judaslike, Judasly, nonfaithful, perfidious, proditorious, proditory, Punic, recreant, renegade, reptilian, reptitious, swike, traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless, unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Strange, scary, suspicious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dodgy, hinky, sketchy, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, incongruous, incongruitous, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, odd, outlandish, out of the ordinary, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as a coot, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, uncouth, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheh2ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bheh2g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English booky From book + -y.
Perhaps from book (“to flee, leave hurriedly”) + -y.