clockworky

comparative more clockworky · superlative most clockworky

1. informalResembling or characteristic of clockwork.

   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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   ...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