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bookey

bookey is the alternative spelling of booky.

Meaning of booky

Adjective (1)

booky (comparative bookier, superlative bookiest)

  1. (dated) Bookish.

Adjective (2)

booky (comparative bookier, superlative bookiest)

  1. (Multicultural-London-English) Treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy.
    • Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
      They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
      Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
      I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y)
  2. (Multicultural-London-English) Strange, scary, suspicious.
    • Everyone knows that feeling of walking into a room and the atmosphere being bare bookie but also calm. In this LA Beats produced track the boys reminisce on those rooms where you’re greeted by a combination of “bare weed smoke” and “wavy settings”.2017 March 25, Trudy Barry, “1st Listen Review: Section Boyz' 'Soundcheck' mixtape”, in GRM Daily, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2023
    Synonyms:
    dodgy, hinky, sketchy, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, curious

Forms of bookey

comparativebookier
superlativebookiest

Questions about bookey

What is bookey the alternative spelling of?
Bookey is the alternative spelling of booky.

Words near bookey in the dictionary

  1. bookers
  2. bookery
  3. bookes
  4. booketeria
  5. booketerias
  6. bookey
  7. bookfair
  8. bookfairs
  9. bookfell
  10. bookfells
  11. bookflap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookey (page history and authors); booky (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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