clockworky
English
Etymology
clockwork + -y
Adjective
clockworky (comparative more clockworky, superlative most clockworky)
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of clockwork.
- 1988, Lin Carter, Callipygia, page 122:
- ...its innards hummed and buzzed, clicked and purred, whizzed and clacked and whirred, and made other annoying clockworky noises...
- 2006, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Strictest School in the World (page 150)
- He had cleared it of springs, tubes, coils and clockworky bits for the occasion.
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