- 1翹課、逃學（美式口語，多說 play hooky）
If you play hooky, you stay away from school (and sometimes work) when you are supposed to be there, and nobody gave you permission. It is informal American English, a little old-fashioned and playful — the kind of line you hear in stories about children. You almost always need the verb play: people say play hooky, not “I hooky.” It does not sound as heavy as a legal word for missing school; it can even sound cheeky. British speakers more often say play truant, or, very , .
組成First recorded in New York in 1848. Most likely from Dutch hoekje “nook, corner” (a hiding spot). It looks like hook + -y, but that is only the surface.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
hookynoun詞源 1/ˈhʊki/
- 1
Absence from school or work; truancy.
- Let's play hooky and go to the mall.
- I was already two years late getting to college. I was twenty, not eighteen like most people who were about to graduate. All that hooky playing, stealing, and getting sent to juvenile jails had set me way back.
hookyadj詞源 2/ˈhʊki/
- 1
Full of hooks (in any sense).
- Sew the hooky half of the Velcro on the inner side so that it doesn't pick up fluff.
- At least the mostly instrumental kickoff “Long Tailed Winter Bird” offers a hooky acoustic guitar riff you can’t blame McCartney for hanging on to as long as he does.
- 2
Shaped like or resembling a hook; hooked.
- 3
slangDodgy; crooked; illicit.
- Start a thing in the street and attract attention to bags full of hooky gear? No. She was smarter than that.
- So I decided to put on my seediest voice and leer, and go round offering the traders the Cole line in cheap hooky goods.
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