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Nakey vs Wakey - What's the difference?

nakey | wakey |

As an adjective nakey

is naked.

As a noun wakey is

the day on which one wakes up and travels home.

nakey

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal, or, childish, or, endearing) naked
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , author=Nick Smith , title=Undead on Arrival , publisher=Luath Press Ltd. , page=92 , passage="'You may be used to parading nakey in front of strangers, but I'm not.'"}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , author=Jean Montgomery , title=A Field of Angels , publisher=iUniverse , page=19 , passage="'Well hello my nakey baby. Where are your pajamas?'"}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2012 , author=Deborah St.Hilaire , title=Divalution: The Evolution and Revolution of the Diva , publisher=AuthorHouse , page=73 , passage="New rule of thumb: The older you get, the more you should cover but you can always be nakey at home."}}

    wakey

    English

    Noun

  • (military, slang) The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
  • * 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.
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