pitchy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪtʃi/
- Rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Etymology 1
From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.
Adjective
pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
- Very dark black; pitch-black.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
- Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
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