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Holey means full of holes. Socks go holey at the toes. A holey roof lets rain in. Cheese can be holey, with little tunnels through it. It is a simple, adjective — the kind of word you say at home, not in a lab. You make it from hole plus -y, the same pattern as messy or sandy. English put the extra e in the middle on purpose, so you would not mix it up with holy, which means sacred, close to God. They sound almost the same, and hundreds of years ago they could even look the same on the page (older English had holy, holi, holly for this “full of holes” meaning too). Now the extra e is a kindness: holey is about holes; holy is about God. Holey is not rude, but when you talk about clothes it often means worn out, so calling someone’s jumper holey can sound as if you noticed it is old.
滿是破洞的（衣服破了、起司有洞都算；別和 holy「神聖的」搞混）
組成hole + -y. The e was inserted in Modern English to tell it apart from holy (sacred). Older English also wrote holy/holi for “spongy, full of holes”.
同家族的字
- holeholey just means full of holes
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
holeyadj/ˈhəʊl.li/
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Having, or being full of, holes.
- Fred loved holey Dutch cheese.
- Steven also acknowledged that his presentation of self—wild locs, nerd glasses, and holey hipster jeans for our first interview—encourages whites to speak to him.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。