Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Cold; penetrating; chilly.
Wiktionary
- adj. UK Cold, but not excessively so.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. British informal Cold; -- of weather.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. appreciably or disagreeably cold
Examples
“Bloody parky waiting for the bus on this street corner!”
“Have fun in yorkshire could be a bit parky i remember snow in june growing up in ilkley!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He greeted me with a cry of "Hollo; me son, and what can I be doin 'for ye on this parky day?”
“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.”
“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?" ”
“It's no 'so parky, Mr. Bertram, sir-r," replied Tam cautiously.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parky’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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adjectives
amort, propense, aguish, seclusive, pokerish, horrent, stem-winding, indign, obzocky, abnormous, fallow, dividuous and 39 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Daily
Daily Vocab List
lull, pious, lurid, objurgate, insurgent, lewd, patio, onus, lampoon, geisha, larceny, maim and 206 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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Prosody
Words that don't sound like what they mean
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Good Words
rubric, spurious, spavined, cipher, austere, egregious, cratch, cyanotype, sudatory, petrific, yakka, polemic and 30 more...
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words to use
parky, ninny, suckle, cineast, postface, finickity, atrocious, pry, agnostic, extempore, procrastinate, dilly-dally and 3 more...
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new words ! ! !
parky, pinnacle, marrowfat, sombrous, photophone, misandrist, misogynist, hypostyle, cordial, tulipomania, cornucopia, qualms and 36 more...
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Carol's list
pseudo, palimpsest, incognito, parky, skandha, inclement, spumescent, rejoinder, aspersions, polysemant, aretaic, espousal and 4 more...
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Britishisms
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smart words
Good tto use for essays
Tweets
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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