witchy

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English

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Etymology

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From witch +‎ -y.

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Adjective

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witchy (comparative witchier, superlative witchiest)

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

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