Greeky

English

Etymology

Greek + -y

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɹiːki/
  • Rhymes: -iːki

Adjective

Greeky (comparative more Greeky, superlative most Greeky)

  1. (informal) Somewhat Greek; Greekish.
    • 1919, Marie Conway Oemler, A Woman Named Smith:
      [] a Greeky front with white pillars, and a big old hall, and a big old garden—
    • 2020, Daniel Taylor, Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees: A Jon Mote Mystery, page 121:
      She is dressed diaphanously, like a Greeky Isadora Duncan dancing the blues away in Hemingway's Paris. She even has an ivy wreath in her hair.
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