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pencilly

pencilly adjective: resembling or characteristic of a pencil or of pencil drawings.

Adjective

pencilly (comparative more pencilly, superlative most pencilly)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a pencil or of pencil drawings.
    • And a pencilly beam of light, wavering and striped among the branches as the detected pair switched on, and the thunder and protest of pursuit...1994, Ellis Peters, Fallen Into the Pit, page 220

Forms of pencilly

comparativemore pencilly
superlativemost pencilly

Origin of pencilly

From pencil + -y.

Questions about pencilly

What does pencilly mean?
Pencilly means resembling or characteristic of a pencil or of pencil drawings.
What part of speech is pencilly?
Pencilly is an adjective.

Words near pencilly in the dictionary

  1. pencilling
  2. pencilling in
  3. pencilling out
  4. pencillings
  5. pencills
  6. pencilly
  7. pencilmaker
  8. pencilmakers
  9. pencilmaking
  10. pencilmark
  11. pencilmarks

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