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  • adjective informal Infested with cockroaches.

Etymologies

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cockroach +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Try and do this without letting the black cockroachy things hit you or the red trail you leave behind, since you'll lose a life.

    SLACKERJACK – Land Grab 2007

  • More importantly, how could I have taken out the potentially cockroachy trash that had been staring me down intimidatingly all day, without her moral support?

    Archive 2006-09-01 tannaz 2006

  • More importantly, how could I have taken out the potentially cockroachy trash that had been staring me down intimidatingly all day, without her moral support?

    It takes a village tannaz 2006

  • "Don't yer know 'er?" he repeated, pausing in his task of scooping some black cockroachy sugar from the bottom of a bin.

    Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

  • Look at me, another accessory, come two thousand miles on a garlicky, cockroachy banana steamer all the way from South America to connive at the sacrifice -- please to observe how lightly my guilt rests upon my shoulders.

    Waifs and Strays Part 1 O. Henry 1886

  • "'Monseer,' says I, lingerin ',' will you tell a poor little Irishman this: When I set foot on your cockroachy

    Cabbages and Kings 1904

  • "'Monseer,' says I, lingerin ',' will you tell a poor little Irishman this: When I set foot on your cockroachy steamer, and breathed liberal and revolutionary sentiments into your sour wine, did you think I was conspirin 'to sling a pick on your contemptuous little railroad?

    Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

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