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insecty

adj

Etymology

From insect + -y.

  1. calqued from ἔντομον
  2. derived from īnsectum
  3. borrowed from insecte
  4. suffixed as insecty — “insect + y”

Definitions

  1. Full of insects.

    • But far more than the murmuring and insecty air of the moorland does the wet chirk-chirking of the living shore give one the idea of crowded and multitudinous life.
    • Altogether it was an insecty, odoriferous, screaming, wrangling, jostling throng, to shoulder one's way amongst.

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