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 MacGill, Patrick
The stage could not be darkened in Macbeth; but the hero was made to say, "Light thickens, and the crew makes wing to the rooky wood."
From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
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: 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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