| 单词 | to play hookey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play hookey 1. to play hookey: to play truant. Also transferred. colloquial (chiefly North American). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > be absent [verb (intransitive)] > absent oneself to turn awaya1400 absenta1425 to play truant1560 truant1580 to take (a) French leave1751 to trig it1796 to play hookey1848 submarine1915 to take off1930 bunk1949 society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant to play truant1560 mitch1580 mooch1622 to trig it1796 plunk1808 minch1836 wag1847 to play hookey1848 to hop the wag1861 to play (the) wag1861 to hook Jack1877 to bag school1934 to go on the hop1959 1848 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 1866 Harper's Mag. May 779/1 Kate used to..entreat him not to get feruled, nor play ‘hookey’. 1867 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Drolleries 20 He would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thing he could do. 1883 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-boy ix. 47 They remembered that the geography lesson was a hard one, and so they played ‘hookey’. 1904 W. N. Harben Georgians vii. 77 ‘I sorter feel like playin' hookey myself,’ he admitted. 1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xii. 150 I'll play on them, too, when they gets home! Off playing hookey from work when we all of us aches from double shifts. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiv. 172 He's played hookey from the choir so often that the vicar told him..he would fire him out. 1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man iii. xi. 144 Such solitary contemplation during the office day..is regarded..as a form of hooky. 1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 98 ‘I like to play hooky now and then.’.. ‘You can't just call it hooky.’ 1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Apr. 23/8 Youngsters who play hooky are..merely afraid of their classrooms. < as lemmas |
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