booky
/ˈbʊki/
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Multicultural London English/ˈbyːki/
booky adjective: bookish.
Adjective (1)
Adjective (2)
booky (comparative bookier, superlative bookiest)
- 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)
- Synonyms:
- dastardly, ratlike, viperous, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted
- Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
- 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
- I didn't want to verbalise my fears about a polar bear in the woods, because I would sound like a fruitloop. / Then Flora spoke up. ‘Selkirk's got a point.’ / ‘Yeah,’ agreed Turk of all people, ‘that jungle is bare booky, fam.’2018, M. A. Bennett, The Island, London: Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page unknown
Synonyms of booky
- dastardly
- ratlike
- viperous
- disloyal
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
- doublehearted
- faithless
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Forms of booky
| comparative | bookier |
|---|---|
| superlative | bookiest |
| alternative form | Buki |
| alternative form | bookey |
| alternative form | bookie |
Origin of booky
From book + -y.
Perhaps from book (“to flee, leave hurriedly”) + -y.
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Words that rhyme with booky
Questions about booky
- What does booky mean?
- Booky means bookish.
- What part of speech is booky?
- Booky is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce booky?
- Booky is pronounced /ˈbʊki/.
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