clockworky

adj

clockworky

adj

Etymology From clockwork + -y.

1

Informal Resembling or characteristic of clockwork.

  • ...its innards hummed and buzzed, clicked and purred, whizzed and clacked and whirred, and made other annoying clockworky noises...1988, Lin Carter, Callipygia, page 122:
  • He had cleared it of springs, tubes, coils and clockworky bits for the occasion.2006, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Strictest School in the World, page 150:

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