Adjective: pikey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pikey |
| Superlative | most pikey |
Sample Sentences
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Like its schoolboy master, the rod built from the cane then chosen has since had many a narrow escape "by flood and fell," and not a few damaged 'tips,' aye, and 'joints' too; but its main timbers are as sound as ever, and I trust may yet be destined to wave death over many a pikey pool and glittering torrent when the hand that chose them is no longer able to do justice to their supple graces. [1865, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, The Book of the Pike, page 126:]
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The Broadland waters are pikey waters. There is no doubt that if Norfolk is famous for any one species of fish, then it is for none other than Esox himself, the predatory pike. [1965, The Fishing Gazette [New Series] - Issues 4560-4585, page 14:]
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The name gar-pike has gone some way to suggest the non-existent relationship, while (two dorsal fins notwithstanding) the pike-perches look remarkably 'pikey'. [1979, Len Cacutt, British Freshwater Fishes: The Story of Their Evolution, page 98:]
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We travel along tortuous forest roads in the most 'pikey' part ofVarmland — the whole time alongside water. [2003, Michael Jensen, Fly-Fishing: For Pike, →ISBN, page 12:]
Adjectives inflected like pikey
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From pike + -y.