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 (lyrics and music), “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

• cocaine addict

Turkish

Noun

cokey (definite accusative cokeyi, plural cokeyler)

1. Alternative form of jokey

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cokey”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 829a