holey
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈhoʊli/
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agujereado
- He offered her a seat on a little table or the bunk with a holey horse blanket.
- holey jeans
- holey shoes
Examples
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When we join with other homeschool children, my children wear socially acceptable clothes—no poodle skirts or holey clothes, for example.
Blog text (8) -
She came to the door in an old gray sweatshirt, tattered, holey jeans, and bare feet with playfully red toenails.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Maybe you can stick the holey part under his desk.
Fiction book (2002) -
Concert T-shirts, holey jeans, total burnouts.
Fiction book (1999) -
Faded cotton t-shirts, last year's shoes, holey pants, soil stains forgotten.
Fiction book (1997) -
Neither of us owned many clothes, and while there were advantages in traveling light, it meant that holey socks and undone hems demanded immediate attention.
Fiction book (1992) -
Parisians say their city, with all of its perforations, is like a wedge of Gruyère cheese, and nowhere is as holey as the catacombs.
Blog text (1) -
The children wore holey shoes that let them feel the ground beneath their feet.
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She decided to wear her holey sweater as a cozy layer for the chilly evening.
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After years of use, his holey backpack struggled to hold everything securely.
Synonyms
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4.6
Full of small holes that let water or air pass through
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9.6
A material like rock or bone that lets air and water pass through
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4.3
Something that has small holes through it, often in a regular pattern
Full of small holes that let water or air pass through
With many small holes that let things pass through easily
Having many small holes or connected parts like a net
A thing with holes from damage or wear
Antonyms
How Perforated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word holey is simply hole plus the ending -y, where -y means 'full of', as in hairy or dusty, so holey means 'full of holes'.