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atticky

atticky adjective: resembling or characteristic of an attic.

Adjective

atticky (comparative more atticky, superlative most atticky)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of an attic.
    • […] with its nice atticky smell that no other house in the world had! It just fitted all around you, when you went in the door […]1922, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rough-hewn
    • She had no intention of giving up her flat, especially since her rent included the three little atticky rooms on the third floor, the top floor of the house […]1998, Maeve Brennan, The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin
    Synonyms:
    atticlike

Synonyms of atticky

Forms of atticky

comparativemore atticky
superlativemost atticky

Origin of atticky

From attic + -y.

Questions about atticky

What does atticky mean?
Atticky means resembling or characteristic of an attic.
What part of speech is atticky?
Atticky is an adjective.

Words near atticky in the dictionary

  1. Atticists
  2. Atticize
  3. Atticized
  4. Atticizes
  5. Atticizing
  6. atticky
  7. atticless
  8. atticlike
  9. attico-
  10. atticoantral
  11. atticoantrotomy

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