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| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| hooky, hookey (n.) |
| is part of an idiom, to play hooky, which means “to be a truant, to hook [escape] school.” Its plurals are hookeys or hookies, and neither is much used. Hooky was once slang, but it has lasted so well that it is now Standard in its idiom. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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