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ticcy

ticcy adjective: exhibiting tics.

Adjective

ticcy (comparative more ticcy, superlative most ticcy)

  1. Exhibiting tics.
    • It was clear that the action of the drug was, in a sense, unpredictable, in that it might call forth a variety of behaviours: given the initial form of behaviour — whether tongue-pulsing, therapeutic, catatonic, ticcy-palilalic, formicatory, or hallucinatory — the rest of the reaction would follow...1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Forms of ticcy

comparativemore ticcy
superlativemost ticcy

Origin of ticcy

From tic + -y.

Questions about ticcy

What does ticcy mean?
Ticcy means exhibiting tics.
What part of speech is ticcy?
Ticcy is an adjective.

Words near ticcy in the dictionary

  1. ticca
  2. ticced
  3. ticcer
  4. ticcers
  5. ticcing
  6. ticcy
  7. tice
  8. ticed
  9. Ticehurst
  10. Ticehursts
  11. ticement

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