torchy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of torchy
1620–30, in sense “full of torches”; 1940–45 for this sense; torch 1 + -y 1
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, the cranes linger outside the house, peering into the picture window in their living room — especially, she is convinced, when she plays music by torchy Japanese ballad singers.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2022
Originally voiced by Jerry Nelson, she sometimes wears a horn-rimmed lorgnette, fans herself with plastic and sings torchy, bluesy songs.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2022
“Masterpiece” is a torchy ballad that details the breakup of a relationship that is, as Lambert sings, “up there on the wall for all to see.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018
Her influence on other artists is hard to track because no one could mimic her sensibility and personality—her mixture of Eastern European folk-tale mysticism and urban-periphery proletariat saltiness, of torchy romanticism and misanthropic intellect.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2018
This told, strange Teras touch'd her lute, and sung This ditty, that the torchy evening sprung.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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