insecty

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English

Etymology

insect +‎ -y

Adjective

insecty (comparative more insecty, superlative most insecty)

  1. Full of insects.
    • 1865, Alexander Smith, A summer in Skye (page 288)
      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.
    • 1882, Laurence Oliphant, Land of Khemi: up and down the middle Nile:
      Altogether it was an insecty, odoriferous, screaming, wrangling, jostling throng, to shoulder one's way amongst.

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