Hook″y (?), n. [Written also hookey.] [Cf. Hook, v. t., 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run away, to play truant.
This talk about boys... playing ball, and “hooky,” and marbles, was all moonshine. F. Hopkinson Smith.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.