roky

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English

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Etymology

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From roke +‎ -y.

Adjective

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roky (comparative more roky, superlative most roky)

  1. (UK, dialect) Misty; foggy; cloudy.
    • 1993, Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, Scribner, published 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.

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Noun

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roky

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