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trickly

trickly adjective: pouring in trickles.

Adjective

trickly (comparative more trickly, superlative most trickly)

  1. Pouring in trickles.
    • A cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child

Forms of trickly

comparativemore trickly
superlativemost trickly

Origin of trickly

From trickle + -ly.

Questions about trickly

What does trickly mean?
Trickly means pouring in trickles.
What part of speech is trickly?
Trickly is an adjective.

Words near trickly in the dictionary

  1. trickling
  2. trickling down
  3. tricklingly
  4. tricklings
  5. tricklining
  6. trickly
  7. trickment
  8. trickments
  9. tricknollogy
  10. tricknologies
  11. tricknology

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