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brickish

adj

Etymology

From brick + -ish.

  1. derived from *brekan✻ — “to break”
  2. derived from bricke
  3. inherited from brik
  4. suffixed as brickish — “brick + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of brick.

    • One moment his shoulders and his head stood plain in every detail, even to the brickish redness of his skin and the curve of his fingers about the glasses; the next he was gone.
    • "Well, she had a slate-colored, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red.

  2. Like a brick, a helpful or reliable person.

    • "It's awfully brickish of you, Worcester," said Acton, as Grim was heard trotting up the corridor "to stand down."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for brickish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA