Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Misty; foggy; cloudy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prov. Eng. Misty; foggy; cloudy.

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  • adjective UK, dialect misty; foggy; cloudy

Etymologies

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roke +‎ -y

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Examples

  • It was the third of these "roky" nights, and the sea-fog poured along the land like vapour from an opened jar of chemicals.

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • March 26, 2008 at 1:57 pm eber tryz the beer flote, no rootz? wif roky rode ais cremez? ownly did wunst.

    what seems to be - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Pokles násilia je fraktál jav, vidieť v mierke tisícročí, storočí, desaťročí, a roky.

    ideonexus.com »2007» July 2007

  • Takze v sucasnosti ak si chcete zaspominat na 90-te roky v leteckom priemysle, tak by ste mali letiet jednou z Azijskych aeroliniek, kde je este stale prevaha letusiek nad letusiakmi.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Holod v Ukraini ta na Pivnichnomu Kavkazi v povidomlenniakh italiiskykh dyplomativ, 1932-1933 roky (Kharkiv: Folio, 2007); Andrii Kudriachenko, "Holodomor v Ukraini 1932-1933 rokiv ta ioho suspilno-politychni naslidky za otsinkamy dokumentiv politychnoho arkhivu MZS Nimechchyny," in Holodomor v Ukraini: Odeska oblast.

    ACTION UKRAINE REPORT (Archive) 2009

  • There we saw the surmissed Golgotha (a roky hill that really does resemble a skull), and a huge water cistern and wine press, which indicate that it indeed was once a garden or vinyard belonging to a rich man, like Joseph of Arimithea.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

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  • misty, foggy, cloudy

    January 17, 2009

  • Possessing or characterized by rokes . . . smoke, steam, vapour, mist, fog, drizzling rain.

    --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914

    January 19, 2018