roky

English

Etymology

roke +‎ -y

Adjective

roky (comparative more roky, superlative most roky)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) misty; foggy; cloudy
    • 1993, Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, Scribner (1999), →ISBN, page 40:
      They walked around in the roky damp, in silence.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for roky in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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