clockworky
adjEtymology From clockwork + -y.
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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: