bricky

American  

[brik-ee] / ˈbrɪk i /

adjective

brickier, brickiest

1. constructed of, made of, or resembling bricks.

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bricky British  

/ ˈbrɪkɪ /

adjective

1. made of bricks, or like a brick

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noun

1. a variant spelling of brickie

Etymology

Origin of bricky

First recorded in 1590–1600; brick + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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bricky brickiest

"Look at these spaces," says chief designer Simeon Bruner, marveling at the hulking, bricky, fortress-of-industry buildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

A battered cap, tipped rakishly over one ear, topped a mat of curly red hair of the peculiar bricky hue that hisses a sibilant Celtic brogue in whilom wind-stirrings.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman

The pale woman—for her bricky colour had faded out—thrilled and glowed.

From Sisters by Ada Cambridge

The land is ungrateful and barren, and niggardly repays the toil of the cultivator, being for the most part rocky, with a slight sprinkling of a red bricky earth. 

From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow

Madder yields on wool a deep-toned blood-red, somewhat bricky and tending to scarlet.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

Of course, you are the brickiest kind of brick.

From The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island by Margaret Penrose

Judy, you are the brickiest brick, and the trumpest trump!

From Judy of York Hill by Ethel Hume Bennett

You're the dearest of little sisters, the brickiest of bricks!

From Bessie Bradford's Prize by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews