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  • adjective Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.

Etymologies

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patchwork +‎ -y

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Examples

  • I love the wee monkey in the hoop and the patchworky fellow .

    Monkey Business - shop updated too Katy 2009

  • I decided I wanted to try something new with this, so I started from scratch, made my own pattern, and did something patchworky.

    Polka Dot Cottage: The Christmas Crafting 2009

  • I decided I wanted to try something new with this, so I started from scratch, made my own pattern, and did something patchworky.

    Polka Dot Cottage » The Christmas Crafting » Print 2009

  • Next year I intend to master the actual quilting part of it, not just the patchworky bit...

    Archive 2008-12-01 Katy 2008

  • Next year I intend to master the actual quilting part of it, not just the patchworky bit...

    2008 was a year of dolls Katy 2008

  • If so, are we looking at all the ZFS goodness and free UNIX goodness disappearing into the proprietary AIX running on multi-hundred-thousand-dollar mainframes, leaving the CDDL code base to rot / be maintained by that handful of enthusiasts who value ZFS and Solaris above the patchworky Linux and its crappy file systems?

    CNET News.com 2009

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