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clockworky en · ADJ

Etymology

From clockwork + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of clockwork.
   • ...its innards hummed and buzzed, clicked and purred, whizzed and clacked and whirred, and made other annoying clockworky noises... 1988, Lin Carter, Callipygia, page 122:
   • He had cleared it of springs, tubes, coils and clockworky bits for the occasion. 2006, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Strictest School in the World, page 150:

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