Definitions
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- adverb In a
peaky manner.
Etymologies
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peaky + -ly
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Examples
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They stood high on the Abbey cliff-edge -- an old man, eagle-profiled, hawk-beaked, cockatoo-crested, with angry grey eyebrows running peakily upwards towards his temples at either side ... and a boy.
Patsy 1887
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