bricky
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of bricky
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"Look at these spaces," says chief designer Simeon Bruner, marveling at the hulking, bricky, fortress-of-industry buildings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The edifice, although quaint, and rather poor-looking at first sight, owing to its bricky complexion, will bear close examination; indeed, the more you look at it and the better you become reconciled to its proportions.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
It really looked quite neat and attractive, and not too formally bricky, as so much cement showed.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard
But then Deb's face was not heavy and bricky, with prominent cheek-bones, and a forehead four inches high.
From Sisters by Cambridge, Ada
There when they came whereas those bricky towres The which on Themmes brode aged backe doe ryde, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers.—
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
You're the dearest of little sisters, the brickiest of bricks!
From Bessie Bradford's Prize by Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe)
Of course, you are the brickiest kind of brick.
From The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island by Penrose, Margaret
Judy, you are the brickiest brick, and the trumpest trump!
From Judy of York Hill by Bennett, Ethel Hume
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