cockroachy

Adjective

cockroachy (comparative more cockroachy, superlative most cockroachy)

1. (informal) Infested with cockroaches.
   • Look at me, another accessory, come two thousand miles on a garlicky, cockroachy banana steamer all the way from South America to connive at the sacrifice...1917, O. Henry, Waifs and Strays, page 55
   • By morning, the place seemed familiar in a cockroachy sort of way. Bibianna lent me a clean T-shirt to wear with my red miniskirt.1992, Sue Grafton, H is for Homicide, page 227

   Synonyms:

   roachy

2. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of cockroaches.
   • Species singularis, to be called on account of its Cockroachy smell.1839–1841, William Griffith, edited by John M‘Clelland, Itinerary Notes of Plants Collected in the Khasyah and Bootan Mountains, 1837-38, in Affghanisthan and Neighbouring Countries. 1839 to 1841....
   • This variety has a very strong cockroachy odour, similar to Pachycondyla soror.1916 May 20, George Arnold, “A Monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa”, in Annals of the South African Museum, volume XIV, part II, […] for the Trustees of the South African Museum by Neill and...

   Synonyms:

   roachy