cokey

English

Etymology

From coke (“cocaine”) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -əʊki
  • Homophone: coky

Adjective

cokey (comparative more cokey, superlative most cokey)

  1. (uncommon) Cocaine-addicted.
    • 1931, Cab Calloway, “Minnie the Moocher”:
      She messed around with a bloke named Smokey // She loved him though he was cokey
    • 2020, Benjamin Nugent, Fraternity, page 97:
      She sensed he was a neural kin; there was the static, preoccupied expression, the rocking of the torso, the hiding eyes, the small body, the hair that stood in bunches. He was cokie, metabolically.

See also

Turkish

Noun

cokey (definite accusative cokeyi, plural cokeyler)

  1. alternative form of jokey

References

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