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Definition of Rooky
1. a. Misty; gloomy.
Definition of Rooky
1. Adjective. full of rooks ¹
2. Adjective. misty; gloomy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rooky
1. abounding in rooks [adj ROOKIER, ROOKIEST]
Medical Definition of Rooky
1. Misty; gloomy. "Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood." (Shak) Some make this Shakespearean word mean "abounding in rooks." See: Roky. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rooky
Literary usage of Rooky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"rooky Wood ('/','<•). Not the wood where rooks do congregate, but the mitty or
dork wood. The verb reek (to emit vapour) had the preterite ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... down the rooky way, That leads to Brotherstone. île went not with the bold
Buccleuch His banner broad to rear ; He went not 'gainst the English yew To ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"CHAPTER V. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Good things
of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"See KATYDID, and rooky MOUNTAIN LOCUST. Grasshopper, in pianos, XIII. 491, 1 a.
" Grasshopper bird " (katydid), IX. 773, l ab. ..."
5. Down the Mackenzie and Up the Yukon in 1906 by Elihu Stewart (1913)
"CHAPTER IX From Fort McPherson to Rampart House : Crossing the Feel River : An
Attempt at Intimidation i The Summit of the rooky Mountains i In Pacific ..."
6. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1900)
"the city, mountain ranges rising into a buM rooky mass 1., and stretching r.
to Iho plain of Adalia, the long sweep of the coast and the sea. ..."
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