holey adj : allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn: porous]

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊli
• Homophones: holy

Adjective

1. having, or being full of, holes

   Fred loved holey Dutch cheese.

apertured, crible, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, fenestrated, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, honeycombed, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, like Swiss cheese, patchy, peppered, perforate, perforated, pierced, ragged, raggedy, ratty, riddled, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, shot through, slotted, tacky, tattered, tatty, torn, windowed