rooky
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rooky
Example Sentences
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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 Taylor, Bayard
For it was Morgane's realm, embowered Gore; That rooky pile her palace whence she bore With Urience sway; but he at Camelot Knew naught of intrigues here at Chariot.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
In my spare time I wrote several articles dealing with the life of the soldier from the stage of raw "rooky" to that of finished fighter.
From The Amateur Army by MacGill, Patrick
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 Radcliffe, Ann Ward
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