booky

comparative bookier · superlative bookiest

1. datedBookish.

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1. Multicultural London EnglishTreacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy.

   Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby

   2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y)

   Synonyms: dastardly, ratlike, viperous, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing

2. Multicultural London EnglishStrange, scary, suspicious.

   I didn't want to verbalise my fears about a polar bear in the woods, because I would sound like a fruitloop. / Then Flora spoke up. ‘Selkirk's got a point.’ / ‘Yeah,’ agreed Turk of all people, ‘that jungle is bare booky, fam.’

   2018, M. A. Bennett, The Island, London: Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page unknown

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   Everyone knows that feeling of walking into a room and the atmosphere being bare bookie but also calm. In this LA Beats produced track the boys reminisce on those rooms where you’re greeted by a combination of “bare weed smoke” and “wavy settings”.

   2017 March 25, Trudy Barry, “1st Listen Review: Section Boyz' 'Soundcheck' mixtape”, in GRM Daily

   Synonyms: dodgy, hinky, sketchy, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband