holey
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
/ˈhəʊl.li/
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/ˈhəʊl.li/ · [ˈhɒʊli] · [ˈhɒʊɫ.li] · /ˈhəʊli/ (UK) · /ˈhoʊli/ (US)
Definition of holey
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English holy, holi, holly, holli (“holey, spongy, hollow”); equivalent to hole + -y. The e was inserted in Modern English to distinguish the word from holy (“hallowed, sacred”).
Words you can make from holey
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