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roky

roky adjective: misty; foggy; cloudy.

Adjective

roky (comparative more roky, superlative most roky)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Misty; foggy; cloudy.
    • they slaver men sayne - Lyke a roky rayne. - Skelton.1866, John Greaves Nall, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft: A Handbook for Visitors and Residents; with Chapters on the Archaeology, Natural History, &c., of the District; a History, with Statistics, of...
    • He […] in a roky hollow, belling, etc. Roky (associated with reek) means misty, foggy.1896, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine, and Other Idylls of the King, page 189
    Synonyms:
    rawky
  2. Exhibiting roke (a defect in steel ingots).
    • […] scaly, and frightfully roky bar.1877, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, page 469
    • then elongate and “open-out,” producing “roky” billets and blooms. When the cracks are from top to bottom, i.e. longitudinal, it is usually because cooling, after the ingot has been taken out of the mould, has been uneven.1942, Eric N. Simons, Edwin Gregory, Steel Manufacture Simply Explained

Synonyms of roky

Forms of roky

comparativemore roky
superlativemost roky

Origin of roky

From roke + -y.

Questions about roky

What does roky mean?
Roky means misty; foggy; cloudy.
What part of speech is roky?
Roky is an adjective.

Words near roky in the dictionary

  1. Rokossovsky
  2. Rokossowski
  3. roks
  4. rokurokubi
  5. rokusho
  6. roky
  7. Rokytne
  8. rokühnite
  9. rola bola
  10. rola bolas
  11. rolag

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