witchy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old English wiċċe

Proto-Germanic *wikkōną

Proto-West Germanic *wikkōn

Proto-Indo-European *-ō

Proto-Germanic *-ô

Proto-West Germanic *-ō

Proto-West Germanic *wikkō

Old English wiċċa

Middle English wicche

English witch

English -y

English witchy

From witch + -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪt͡ʃi/
• Rhymes: -ɪtʃi

Adjective

witchy (comparative witchier, superlative witchiest)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.

   Synonyms: witchish, witchlike, witchly; see also Thesaurus:magicianlike

   The children are scared to go near the witchy old woman's house at night.

   • 1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, New York: Dell, published 1980, →ISBN, →OL, page 92:

     Bernadette was a small wiry girl with a lot of long witchy black hair, and on the first day of school she wore only one sock.

   • 2006 August 8, Sharon Lamb with Lyn Mikel Brown, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 96:

     Sabrina and the three sisters in Charmed have a myriad of witchy powers.

Translations

witchlike

• German: hexenartig, hexengleich
• Spanish: embrujado (es) m, brujeril, brujesco m, brujil