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insecty

insecty adjective: full of insects.

Adjective

insecty (comparative more insecty, superlative most insecty)

  1. Full of insects.
    • But far more than the murmuring and insecty air of the moorland does the wet chirk-chirking of the living shore give one the idea of crowded and multitudinous life.1865, Alexander Smith, A summer in Skye, page 288
    • Altogether it was an insecty, odoriferous, screaming, wrangling, jostling throng, to shoulder one's way amongst.1882, Laurence Oliphant, Land of Khemi: up and down the middle Nile

Forms of insecty

comparativemore insecty
superlativemost insecty

Origin of insecty

From insect + -y.

Questions about insecty

What does insecty mean?
Insecty means full of insects.
What part of speech is insecty?
Insecty is an adjective.

Words near insecty in the dictionary

  1. insectotoxin
  2. insectotoxins
  3. insectproof
  4. insects
  5. insectual
  6. insecty
  7. insecure
  8. insecurely
  9. insecureness
  10. insecurer
  11. insecurest

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