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Booky

//ˈbʊki// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Bookish. dated
  2. 2
    Treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy. Multicultural-London-English

    "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"

  3. 3
    Strange, scary, suspicious. Multicultural-London-English

    "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”."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From book + -y.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from book (“to flee, leave hurriedly”) + -y.

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