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warehousy

warehousy adjective: having many warehouses.

Adjective

warehousy (comparative more warehousy, superlative most warehousy)

  1. (informal) Having many warehouses.
    • We want to see how far our readers can get the best impression of an ordinary, commonplace, ugly, commercial, shoppy or warehousy street.1902, Practical Junior Photographer, page 277
  2. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a warehouse.
    • So many Scotch and even Glasgow goods, and above all the old fusty warehousy smell, put me very much in mind of Candleriggs Street.1925, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Early letters of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to his ..., page 70
    • Do a jig or a square dance in the large, warehousy space.1990, Paul Deblinger, Culpepper's Minneapolis and Saint Paul, →ISBN, page 176

Forms of warehousy

comparativemore warehousy
superlativemost warehousy

Origin of warehousy

From warehouse + -y.

Questions about warehousy

What does warehousy mean?
Warehousy means having many warehouses.
What part of speech is warehousy?
Warehousy is an adjective.

Words near warehousy in the dictionary

  1. warehousewoman
  2. warehousewomen
  3. warehousey
  4. warehousing
  5. warehousings
  6. warehousy
  7. Wareing
  8. Warekena
  9. Warekpam
  10. wareless
  11. warely

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