Definitions

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  • adjective Full of insects.

Etymologies

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insect +‎ -y

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Examples

  • They are a kind of insecty things, and they got a long tail that is three fine hairs.

    A Girl of the Limberlost 1909

  • Even though I tossed and turned to various insecty friends into the wee hours of the morning last night, I know this opportunity that has fallen in my lap is too good to pass by.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Even though I tossed and turned to various insecty friends into the wee hours of the morning last night, I know this opportunity that has fallen in my lap is too good to pass by.

    Shagged in transition. 2005

  • But stick with it, though, because Snail Mail is like an insecty version of Wipeout.

    SLACKERJACK – Fashion Mail 2006

  • Added theremin Bigbriar phaser & Seek Wah at high end as insecty in a nagging mosquito sort of way, then when A. started knobtwiddling on the Tanzanian vocals track I moved to the very low end of the theremin output as a sort of bass frog god croak.

    African drones: AminusR badger 2002

  • The living room is open, light and is very much a family room - not least in the black, insecty spirals of marker pen drawing on the walls, the fruits of two tiny artists 'hands, presumably.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • "There was the contrast between me - all stick insecty (and pregnant with her second child at the time) - and her, so well endowed."

    unknown title 2009

  • The possibility for climate-triggered extra generations hasn't gotten the research attention paid to other kinds of insecty side effects of global change, Tobin says.

    Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews 2009

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