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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Cold; penetrating; chilly.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. UK Cold, but not excessively so.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. British informal Cold; -- of weather.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. appreciably or disagreeably cold

Examples

  • “Bloody parky waiting for the bus on this street corner!”

    Fictionaut: Lonely Heart

  • “Have fun in yorkshire could be a bit parky i remember snow in june growing up in ilkley!”

    l’oeil du cyclone

  • “The trip back was into the bitter NE wind so it was a bit on the parky side, and the ice was much less stable when we got back to Slateford aqueduct.”

    Long canal run

  • “For one thing, your legs won't answer yet awhile, and even if they did, you're ballock-naked and it's dam' parky out and we're doin' forty miles an hour.”

    Fictionaut: Watershed

  • “For one thing, your legs won't answer yet awhile, and even if they did, you're ballock-naked and it's dam 'parky out and we're doin' forty miles an hour.”

    Flashman And The Tiger

  • “He greeted me with a cry of "Hollo; me son, and what can I be doin 'for ye on this parky day?”

    Flashman and the angel of the lord

  • “He turned to his myrmidon: "Get a move on you, Herbert; it's a bit parky standing about here.”

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917

  • “An asphalt walk led in festoons from high parky nooks that sheltered couples, down to the water-slapped edge of docks, where the tidey surf had a thick, inarticulate lisp, as if what it had to say might only be comprehended from the under side.”

    Star-Dust

  • “We were sitting there smoking in front of the fire -- it was a shade parky for the time of year -- and not talking a great deal, when the Reverend said to Blake, "Things are looking up on the canal, aren't they, Tom?" ”

    Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel

  • “It's no 'so parky, Mr. Bertram, sir-r," replied Tam cautiously.”

    Tam o' the Scoots

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  • chained_bear "'You will need a watch-coat, sir,' he added. 'It is right parky up there.'"
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 149 Mar 4, 2008

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