roky

English

Etymology

roke +‎ -y

Adjective

roky (comparative more roky, superlative most roky)

1. (UK, dialect) Misty; foggy; cloudy.
   • 1993, Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, Scribner (1999), →ISBN, page 40:

     They walked around in the roky damp, in silence.

2. Exhibiting roke (a defect in steel ingots).
   • 1877, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, page 469:

     […] scaly, and frightfully roky bar.

   • 1942, Eric N. Simons, Edwin Gregory, Steel Manufacture Simply Explained

     then elongate and “open-out,” producing “roky” billets and blooms. When the cracks are from top to bottom, i.e. longitudinal, it is usually because cooling, after the ingot has been taken out of the mould, has been uneven.

References

• 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used
• “roky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Kory, York, york

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrokɪ]

Noun

roky

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of rok