Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or resembling a switch.
  • Whisking.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective colloq. Whisking.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective colloquial Having a whisking motion.

Etymologies

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switch +‎ -y

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Examples

  • The switchy thing that starts the sleek Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is almost exactly the same infrared gadget that starts the crate-of-crazy G-wagen.

    For Your Big-Box Shopping, Drive a Big Box Dan Neil 2011

  • Reed gave me the structure of a process for using the code-switchy language of my actual life and not the prettified standard language Asian Americans are supposed to learn to get a dialogue with the power butlers.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • Reed gave me the structure of a process for using the code-switchy language of my actual life and not the prettified standard language Asian Americans are supposed to learn to get a dialogue with the power butlers.

    Top Ten Novels 2007

  • It's been a nasty winter this one, wet, windy and switchy weather.

    How to Hold a Plectrum FUZZARELLY 2008

  • Of so very many things, of failure, of displeasing, of not understanding, of not being equal and even worrying how my switchy feelings may get in the way of it all.

    June 1st, 2004 mynxii 2004

  • One out o 'the last dozen -- the long switchy ones.

    Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel George Manville Fenn 1870

  • As if to symbolize this state of things, the "fancy piece" astern comprised, among numerous other carved decorations, a cross and a miter; while forward, on the bows, was a sort of devil for a figure-head -- a dragon-shaped creature, with a fiery red mouth, and a switchy-looking tail.

    Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

  • Or I get into a switchy mood whenever I see one of those old Comcast TV ads making fun of

    Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2010

  • Or I get into a switchy mood whenever I see one of those old Comcast TV ads making fun of

    Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2010

  • I still do (I'm improvising something off the foundation of "switchy mclayout" right now, in fact) but I'm finding the strictly technical article, both in ALA and elsewhere, less and less useful these days.

    Boagworld recommends 2008

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