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pockety

pockety adjective: occurring in isolated pockets.

Adjective

pockety (comparative more pockety, superlative most pockety)

  1. Occurring in isolated pockets.
    • It is commonly said of manganese ores that in their occurrence they are generally of a pockety nature, by which it is meant that the ores are found in limited masses surrounded by unproductive country rock, as opposed to the usual occurrence of other minerals in veins […]1901, Charles Willard Hayes, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, Arthur Coe Spencer, Report on a Geological Reconnoissance of Cuba, page 63

Forms of pockety

comparativemore pockety
superlativemost pockety

Origin of pockety

From pocket + -y.

Questions about pockety

What does pockety mean?
Pockety means occurring in isolated pockets.
What part of speech is pockety?
Pockety is an adjective.

Words near pockety in the dictionary

  1. pocketting
  2. pockettings
  3. pocketwards
  4. pocketwatch
  5. pocketwatches
  6. pockety
  7. pockier
  8. pockiest
  9. pockily
  10. pockiness
  11. pocking

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