wakey

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ.ki/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈwæɪ.ki/

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• Rhymes: -eɪki

From wake + -y (diminutive suffix).

wakey (plural not attested)

1. (military, slang) The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
   • 2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane:

     'You beauty, only 364 and a wakey to go,' the countdown had begun and would continue, as few days passed without someone calling the time. I spared a thought for our temporary enemy whose tour would endure to the end of the war […]

   • 2010, Ian McGibbon, New Zealand's Vietnam War, page 542:

     Morale was also usually high, helped by the men's recognition that their service in Vietnam had strict limits – one year, or, to use a soldiers' expression of the time, 364 days and a 'wakey' (the day the men woke to prepare to fly out).

   • 2011, Richard "Barney" Bigwood, We Were Reos: Australian Infantry Reinforcements in VIETNAM (page 47)

     When you became a 'short timer' (20 days and a wakey) you delighted in sticking it up to the new arrivals.

From wake + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).

wakey

1. (colloquial or childish) Used to encourage someone to wake up.

   Synonym: wakey wakey

   • 2016, W S Markendale, Owen Pendragon: Guild of the Round Table:

     “Wakey Brother Monster,” he said to Rose as he spread his replacement piece of toast.

   • 2021, Margaret Thornton, Cast the First Stone:

     'Come on now, wakey!' called Diane, who was already up and dashing round the room.

• weaky

wakey

1. thigh