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fireworky

fireworky adjective: resembling or characteristic of a firework.

Adjective

fireworky (comparative more fireworky, superlative most fireworky)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a firework.
    • The old man is severe; he's inclined to be fireworky. Don't like to be answered. I thought he was going to hit me the other day.1863, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar, Volume 8, page 95
    • I know it is not so fireworky as the sudden evolving of life, somewhere, somewhen and somehow, out of force and matter, with a pop.1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Sleep and Dreams”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 234

Forms of fireworky

comparativemore fireworky
superlativemost fireworky

Origin of fireworky

From firework + -y.

Questions about fireworky

What does fireworky mean?
Fireworky means resembling or characteristic of a firework.
What part of speech is fireworky?
Fireworky is an adjective.

Words near fireworky in the dictionary

  1. fireworklike
  2. fireworks
  3. fireworks display
  4. fireworks night
  5. fireworks nights
  6. fireworky
  7. fireworm
  8. fireworms
  9. fireworship
  10. fireworthiness
  11. fireworthy

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