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magiciany en · ADJ

Etymology

From magician + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a magician.
   • In one of the baskets, besides a beard, James found a long black magiciany sort of cloak, a squashy black hat, and a bulgy umbrella which was really a trick one. 1953, Oriel Malet [pseudonym; Auriel Rosemary Malet Vaughan], “James Visits a Modern Art Gallery”, in Beginner’s Luck, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 158:
   • A beautiful, queer, dim, magiciany sort of place with Oriental rugs and draperies and cushions, and perfume in the air—incense, I think. 1913 January, Maravene Kennedy Thompson, “Peggy and the Swami: Another Peggy Story”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XL, number 3, New York, N.Y.; London: The McClure Publications, Inc., page 302, column 2:
   • ‘[…] His name’s Somethingorother the Wonderful. Or the Amazing, or the Fantastic. Something like that, anyway. It’s a very magiciany name, whatever it is.’ […] Arko the Magnificent? / That was a very magiciany name. 1997, Aislinn O’Loughlin, The Emperor’s Birthday Suit, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, pages 70 (chapter 6) and 77 (chapter 7):

Forms

Synonyms

magiciany · wizardly · witchish · witchlike · magicianly · magicianlike · wizardlike · magicianly · weird · witchly · witchy · magicianlike · wizardy