Monday, April 04, 2011

The Word-Hoard: Roky

Roky

"Misty; cloudy; foggy."
- Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850

"Possessing or characterized by rokes...smoke, steam, vapour, mist, fog, drizzling rain."
- Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914
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  1. Anna Scott Graham7:29 PM

    There's this singer named Roky Erickson and I always wondered if he pronounced it with a long or short O. :)))

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