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Holey

//ˈhəʊl.li// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having, or being full of, holes.

    "Fred loved holey Dutch cheese."

Adjective
  1. 1
    allowing passage in and out wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English holy, holi, holly, holli (“holey, spongy, hollow”); equivalent to hole + -y. The e was inserted in Modern English to distinguish the word from holy (“hallowed, sacred”).

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