Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.
Etymologies
- phthisic + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So those hideous, snotty, phthisicky, eaves-dropping, musty, moving forms of mortification, both in public and private, curse those dainty books, and like toads spit their venom upon them.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“She leant on an ivory-headed crutch-cane, and was followed by a fat phthisicky dog of the pug kind, who commonly reposed on a cushion, and enjoyed the privilege of snarling at the servants, and occasionally biting their heels, with impunity.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
“And so we find these folks who cultivate a pellucid passivity, a phthisicky whisper, a supercilious smirk, and who win our smothered admiration and give us gooseflesh by imparting a taupe tinge of mystery to all their acts and words, thus proving to the assembled guests that they are the Quality and Wisdom will die with them.”
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
“I do hope you won't have that same kind of a phthisicky ketch in your breath that you had the other night after you overdone.”
“Sock it to 'em!" he tried to shout, but his phthisicky effort ended in a spell of coughing.”
“And here the good dame prolonged her phthisicky laugh for some moments, as she presented a box of Scotch snuff to her guest.”
“A French abbe lays it down that Alexander was a poltroon; a phthisicky professor, holding at every word a bottle of sal volatile to his nose, lectures on strength.”
““They are very great indeed,” answered the old man, with a hollow voice like a ghost; “I am told that I am hectic, phthisicky, asthmatic, and poxed to the bone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phthisicky’.
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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phth
Words with that sequence of letters
phthalo, phthalate, apophthegm, phthalocyanine, naphtha, phthor, phthisic, diphtheria, ophthalmologist, exophthalmia, diphthong, phthongometer and 52 more...
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Name, a Novel
Odd words and odder juxtapositions of words from Name, a Novel by Toadex Hobogrammathon. Some would consider these dystopic "junk phrases", and that's precisely why I like them. Full text at the Po...
corkoid Spanish m..., flock of fried an..., like a bad dram, unsuspectedly Mal..., sudatory ministerium, dice-coal praemunire, praemunire, teocalli, sclaff, labiovelar weathe..., bigeneric loss ad..., good time unrestr... and 1413 more...
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
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rolig Related to or affected by phthisis. Mar 1, 2009