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homeworky

homeworky adjective: resembling or characteristic of homework.

Adjective

homeworky (comparative more homeworky, superlative most homeworky)

  1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of homework.
    • When I very patiently pointed out that proper parents – the kind who really love their daughters – buy presents as a reward for good grades, do you know what she said? ‘I’ll treat you to a chocolate-chip muffin next time we’re in Trotters.’ Hours and hours of hard homeworky slog rewarded with a...2007, Annabelle Starr [pseudonym; Kirsty Neale], SongBird (Megastar Mysteries), London: Egmont UK Limited, →ISBN, page 4
    • When you or Mom would come in my room to check up on me on a school night, I’d just hide the game on my screen behind a Word document and pretend to be doing homework. Same thing with AOL Instant Messaging. I’d always have a homeworky-looking document ready to hide my IMing from you when you came...2014, Bill Ratner, quoting Arianna, “Families Talk”, in Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media’s Effect on Children, and What to Do About It, [Sanger, Calif.]: Familius LLC, →ISBN...

Examples of homeworky in a sentence

  • I’d always have a homeworky-looking document ready to hide my IMing from you when you came in my room.2014, Bill Ratner, quoting Arianna, “Families Talk”, in Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media’s Effect on Children, and...
  • You won't learn how to solve homeworky-style problems.2017 August 21, N[icole] M. Radziwill, “Preface”, in Statistics (the Easier Way) with R: An Informal Text on Applied Statistics and Data...
  • And it’s definitely not helped by Mrs Riley’s homeworky additions.2020, Elaine Wickson, Super Stan, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 45–46:

Forms of homeworky

comparativemore homeworky
superlativemost homeworky

Origin of homeworky

From homework + -y.

Questions about homeworky

What does homeworky mean?
Homeworky means resembling or characteristic of homework.
How do you use homeworky in a sentence?
I’d always have a homeworky-looking document ready to hide my IMing from you when you came in my room.
What part of speech is homeworky?
Homeworky is an adjective.

Words near homeworky in the dictionary

  1. homeworkers
  2. Homeworkgate
  3. homeworking
  4. homeworkless
  5. homeworks
  6. homeworky
  7. homeworld
  8. homeworlder
  9. homeworlders
  10. homeworlds
  11. homewort

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