Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hacky

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English

Syllables
hacky
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Like a hack; amateurish.

adj

Filthy or totally dirty.

adj

Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.

Informal

adj

Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.

Colloquial

adj

Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)

Informal

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree English hack Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English hacky From hack + -y.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hackier (comparative) hackiest (superlative) more hacky (comparative) most hacky (superlative)

Derived Forms

hackily hackiness

Phrases

hacky sack hacky dorty

Frequently Paired Words

dirty dorty hacky dorty unclean

Synonyms

hackish

Rhymes With

jackie wacky tacky khaki mackey mackie lackey paki bukkake jacki raki macky

Questions

What does hacky mean?
Like a hack; amateurish.
Where does hacky come from?
Etymology tree English hack Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English hacky From hack + -y.

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