clockworky

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

clockwork +‎ -y

Adjective[edit]

clockworky (comparative more clockworky, superlative most clockworky)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of clockwork.
    • 1988, Lin Carter, Callipygia, page 122:
      ...its innards hummed and buzzed, clicked and purred, whizzed and clacked and whirred, and made other annoying clockworky noises...
    • 2006, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Strictest School in the World, page 150:
      He had cleared it of springs, tubes, coils and clockworky bits for the occasion.