robotty
robotty adjective: resembling or characteristic of a robot.
Adjective
robotty (comparative more robotty, superlative most robotty)
- Resembling or characteristic of a robot.
- Viewed from the side, you play a robotty chappy who has to fly left to right generally shooting anything that creeps menacingly into view. […] Your large robotty person can turn to shoot these spots on the orifice of nastykind, but you must beware the nasties coming from both directions at once.1988 April, “Side Arms”, in Sinclair User, number 73, London: EMAP Publications Ltd., →ISSN, page 84
- As well as a cast of thousands, Smash TV also throws some heavyweight hardware at it’s^([sic]) contestants in the shape of snipers, shrapnel-bombs, robotty-type monsters and end-of-level guardians.1992 March, Steve Jarratt, “Smash T.V.”, in Total!, number 3, Bath, Avon: Future Publishing, →ISSN, page 23
Examples of robotty in a sentence
- And other sorts of robotty things that look like American footballers who’ve been punched through a Volkswagen.1996 December 24, Terry Pratchett, “FTB”, in Priscilla Olson, Sheila M. Perry, editors, Once More* with Footnotes, Framingham, Mass.: The...
- It might not want the same things as us but it would want the robotty equivalent (metal polish?2002, Rita Carter, “[The Conscious Body] What Do Robots Think About?”, in Exploring Consciousness, Berkeley, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif....
- ‘Who is she think she is?’ Mater D sneered. ‘Her robotty bossy guards, skewers-is-meez an’ limo cars.’2009, Neale Osborne, “Peaches and Cream”, in Lydia’s Tin Lid Drum, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 36:
- But sci-fi, good old spaceshippy, lasery, robotty distant planets and/or distant future capital S capital F – nobody seemed to want that any more.2014, Mitch Benn, Terra’s World, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 12:
Forms of robotty
| comparative | more robotty |
|---|---|
| superlative | most robotty |
Origin of robotty
From robot + -y.
Questions about robotty
- What does robotty mean?
- Robotty means resembling or characteristic of a robot.
- How do you use robotty in a sentence?
- And other sorts of robotty things that look like American footballers who’ve been punched through a Volkswagen.
- What part of speech is robotty?
- Robotty is an adjective.
Words near robotty in the dictionary
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