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bricky

bricky adjective: covered with brick.

Adjective

bricky (comparative brickier, superlative brickiest)

  1. Covered with brick.
  2. Similar to brick in texture, colour, shape, etc.
    • His face was a dark, bricky red, deeply creased rather than wrinkled, and the skin was like loose leather over his neckband[…]1989, James Woodress, Willa Cather: A Literary Life, page 55

Noun

bricky (plural brickies)

  1. (slang) A bricklayer.
    Synonyms:
    brickie

Synonyms of bricky

Forms of bricky

Adjective
comparativebrickier
superlativebrickiest
Noun
pluralbrickies

Origin of bricky

From brick + -y.

Words formed from bricky

Words that rhyme with bricky

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Questions about bricky

What does bricky mean?
Bricky means covered with brick.
What part of speech is bricky?
Bricky can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bricky in the dictionary

  1. brickwits
  2. brickwork
  3. brickworker
  4. brickworkers
  5. brickworks
  6. bricky
  7. brickyard
  8. brickyards
  9. bricolage
  10. bricolages
  11. bricolagist

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