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insecty en · ADJ

Etymology

From insect + -y.

Meanings

1. Full of insects.
   • Altogether it was an insecty, odoriferous, screaming, wrangling, jostling throng, to shoulder one's way amongst. 1882, Laurence Oliphant, Land of Khemi: up and down the middle Nile:
   • But far more than the murmuring and insecty air of the moorland does the wet chirk-chirking of the living shore give one the idea of crowded and multitudinous life. 1865, Alexander Smith, A summer in Skye, page 288:

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