Wakey
English
Etymology
Clipping of Wakefield + -y
Proper noun
Wakey
- (slang) Short for Wakefield (“city in West Yorkshire”).
- 2008, Milly Johnson, The Yorkshire Pudding Club:
- Barnsely General? Or are you in that posh private one in Wakey?
- 2014, Nicholas Rombes, 10/40/70: Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory:
- Eddie: Alright well I'll steer right clear away from Wakey [Wakefield in West Yorkshire] County Council death squad then.
- 2020, Stuart Maconie, The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it:
- Yorkshire is a bloody beautiful county. ... there are worse commutes than Manchester to 'Sheff' or 'Wakey' or 'Tarn' across this landscape, past the tough and tender towns and villages: Tintwistle, Edale, Stalybridge, Glossop, Chapel-en-le-Frith and the rest, overlooked by sombre ridges, nestled in those scooped Pennine hollows, dotted by dark, shining reservoirs.