bricky

American  

[brik-ee] / ˈbrɪk i /

adjective

brickier, brickiest

1. constructed of, made of, or resembling bricks.

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bricky British  

/ ˈbrɪkɪ /

adjective

1. made of bricks, or like a brick

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noun

1. a variant spelling of brickie

Etymology

Origin of bricky

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

Example Sentences

"Look at these spaces," says chief designer Simeon Bruner, marveling at the hulking, bricky, fortress-of-industry buildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

A battered cap, tipped rakishly over one ear, topped a mat of curly red hair of the peculiar bricky hue that hisses a sibilant Celtic brogue in whilom wind-stirrings.

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.

Look at the round things about the sun in the bricky Claude, the smallest of the three Seaports in the National Gallery.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John

“Those bricky towers, The which on Themme’s brode aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers; There whilom wont the Templer Knights to bide, Till they decayed thro’ pride.”

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.

There when they came whereas those bricky towres The which on Themmes brode aged backe doe ryde, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers.—

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund