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bricky

[ brik-ee ]

adjective

, brick·i·er, brick·i·est.
  1. constructed of, made of, or resembling bricks.


bricky

/ ˈbrɪkɪ /

adjective

  1. made of bricks, or like a brick
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a variant spelling of brickie
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bricky1

First recorded in 1590–1600; brick + -y 1
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Example Sentences

It really looked quite neat and attractive, and not too formally bricky, as so much cement showed.

Color varying from pale buff, the typical hue, to a distinct bricky red.

It was the “bricky towers” of the Temple which at length stopped the westward march of the conflagration.

The mud-coated ones lay and baked in the sun, like live pork pies, till their mud casing was hard and bricky.

Madder yields on wool a deep-toned blood-red, somewhat bricky and tending to scarlet.

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