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toothpicky

toothpicky adjective: resembling or characteristic of a toothpick.

Adjective

toothpicky (comparative more toothpicky, superlative most toothpicky)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a toothpick.
    • Looking at the toothpicky TV antennas which stuck up everywhere at odd angles, Daphne remembered more things.1973, Albert Zuckerman, chapter 3, in Tiger Kittens, Garden City, N.Y.: […] [F]or the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 30
    • “I can’t promise that I won’t dash outside during the storm, though,” I said. “A cold rain sounds like heaven right about now.” / “Absolutely not,” Nanny declared. “With all these hills and those toothpicky pine trees that’ll tip over you if you so much as blow on ’em? You will stay inside with...2015, A. Destiny, Elizabeth Lenhard, Our Song (Flirt), Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 152
    Synonyms:
    toothpicklike

Examples of toothpicky in a sentence

  • “With all these hills and those toothpicky pine trees that’ll tip over you if you so much as blow on ’em?2015, A. Destiny, Elizabeth Lenhard, Our Song (Flirt), Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 152:
  • The top third was thin and pinkish; the rest was thicker and grayer, with a toothpicky bone down the middle.2017, James Alan Gardner, All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 104:

Synonyms of toothpicky

Forms of toothpicky

comparativemore toothpicky
superlativemost toothpicky

Origin of toothpicky

From toothpick + -y.

Questions about toothpicky

What does toothpicky mean?
Toothpicky means resembling or characteristic of a toothpick.
How do you use toothpicky in a sentence?
“With all these hills and those toothpicky pine trees that’ll tip over you if you so much as blow on ’em?
What part of speech is toothpicky?
Toothpicky is an adjective.

Words near toothpicky in the dictionary

  1. toothpickers
  2. toothpicking
  3. toothpicklike
  4. toothpicks
  5. toothpickweed
  6. toothpicky
  7. toothplate
  8. toothplates
  9. toothpowder
  10. toothpowders
  11. toothproof

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