i have always wondered and i dint know where to put the question.
2006-10-09 09:31:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
"Hookey" (also spelled "hooky") apparently developed from the colloquial phrase "hooky-crooky" common in the early 19th century, which meant "dishonest or underhanded." The connection between the two phrases becomes clearer when we recall that to "play hookey" properly, one had to pretend to go to school. The child would head out the door at the proper time, schoolbooks in hand, and only when safely out of sight of home would their true itinerary become evident. Of course, the child then often spent the day dreading detection and capture by nearly any grownup, most especially the local Truant Officer.
2006-10-09 09:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by LB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because young lady back in the day when you got caught skipping school the truant officer would snatch you up off the streets with this big ole shiny hook and take you back to school. Hence the term "Playing Hooky"
2006-10-09 16:34:50 · answer #2 · answered by gene_harden2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question! I think it may have been due to fishing, actually. Skip school and go fishing.
2006-10-09 16:33:02 · answer #3 · answered by treseuropean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because, back when skipping school first started, everyone was skipping so they could go fishing?!!?
2006-10-09 16:32:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea but I've wondered the same thing.
2006-10-09 16:33:52 · answer #5 · answered by nice pretty fran 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just some name somebody gave it and it stuck i guess
2006-10-09 16:32:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also want to know....
2006-10-09 16:37:29 · answer #7 · answered by Apollo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno, we called it skiving or bunking
2006-10-09 16:32:23 · answer #8 · answered by Happyworms 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋