Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of bricks, or formed of brick.
- Of the color of common brick: as, a bricky red.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.
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- adjective Covered with
brick . - adjective Similar to
brick in texture, colour, shape, etc. - noun slang A
bricklayer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The long lines of endlessly but subtly different office chairs (ever single one of them just crying out to be sat upon, and every one of them seeming more welcoming than my current model), the packages of photocopy paper stacked in bricky towers, the notebooks – the notebooks!
Brian Ruckley · Odds and Ends in the Twilight of the Year 2008
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I love the kind of "bricky" type on this Tee - goes well with the slogan.
"I Took a Bite Out of Crime and Kinda Wanted Seconds" printed at Threadless! spacesick 2009
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A very nicely handled narrative strand brings brick-expert Novu from bricky Jericho to brickless Etxelur, brought out as a slave of a tubercular old trader called Chona.
Stephen Baxter, Stone Spring (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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A very nicely handled narrative strand brings brick-expert Novu from bricky Jericho to brickless Etxelur, brought out as a slave of a tubercular old trader called Chona.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Explore Driffield's bricky heart around Market Place down to Riverhead, and west and south-west, off Beverley Road and St John's Road, for modern detacheds and semis.
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Assembly members should not get ONE PENNY for any expenses...if a carpenter, bricky, bank clerk or cleaner wants money for newspapers or bathroom fittings, pay for it out of there own pocket.
Tory expense claims 2008
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She grew up to sit on teh herf…harf…bricky fing in front of fyerplaice an stare at hoomins…You has a thumbs.
Uncomfortable kitteh is.. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Hey, if Mr. Monday at the Oklahoman can describe Bricktown as “bricky,” I should be allowed “banky.”
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The walls were yellow cinderblock but the hallway reminded him of an old English prison, bricky and soot-washed.
More Twisted Stories Vol II Deaver, Jeffery 2006
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It was nice, here in this bricky room, glowing in the candlelight, the pianist tickling the ivories in the background.
Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest Bartlett, James Y. 2004
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