rooky
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rooky
Example Sentences
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No "rooky" fresh to the ranks is the butt of so many jokes and such biting sarcasm as the young officer is subjected to when he takes his place as a leader of men.
From The Amateur Army by Patrick MacGill
A great flock of rooks which filled the air with their rooky gossip, was flying straight home to an old gray ruin just visible amongst some ancient trees.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop, and drowze; While night's black agents to their preys do rouze.
From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
The sky had seemed to darken, the air to thicken, the birds to gather in the "rooky" wood.
From Jeremy by Sir Hugh Walpole
The clear blue sky had vanished, and a leaden cloud hung low on the Mediterranean, hiding the shores of Corsica and the rooky isles of Gorgona and Capraja.
From Views a-foot by Bayard Taylor
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