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warlocky en · ADJ

Etymology

From warlock + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a warlock.
   • Even without that battered felt hat with the dents pushed out so it looked mysterious, warlocky; without the filthy clothes and scarves wrapped tight about his neck in the July heat, we would have recognized that rubbish dump scavenger. 1972, David Watmough, Ashes for Easter & Other Monodramas, Vancouver, B.C.: Talonbooks, page 12:
   • I had taken a seat across from an old, shaggy-haired, warlocky fellow with several large thesauruses stacked in front of him. 2015, J. C. Hallman, B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 272–273:
   • Graduate school was filled with many warlocky professors and some wonderful maternal ones. 2016, Virginia Heffernan, “Even If You Don’t Believe in It”, in Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, pages 228–229:

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