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brickish

  • a word derived from brick.
    brick
    noun
    a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the United States, a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 centimeters), red, brown, or yellow in color.

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Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

It’s brickish of you to worry about me at all; but I’ll always be a fright, so what’s the use?

From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Now, Jack, you've been no end brickish, and I'm going to treat you.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson

“Awfully brickish of you to ask us round,” said Telson.

From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

I wish the fellows hadn't been so kind—it was awfully brickish of them, though, wasn't it?

From Mates at Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce