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

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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

Her bricky teeth flung far and wide, On virgin fields my London browses, The amaranthine plains are pied With nutty little bijou houses.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

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

But then Deb's face was not heavy and bricky, with prominent cheek-bones, and a forehead four inches high.

From Sisters by Ada Cambridge

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

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