witchy

W4I1T1C3H4Y4
/ˈwɪt͡ʃi/

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.

“The children are scared to go near the witchy old woman's house at night.”

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivewitchy (comparative witchier, superlative witchiest)

comparative witchier · superlative witchiest

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.

    The children are scared to go near the witchy old woman's house at night.

    2 more examples

    Bernadette was a small wiry girl with a lot of long witchy black hair, and on the first day of school she wore only one sock.

    1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, New York: Dell, published 1980, →ISBN, →OL, page 92

    Sabrina and the three sisters in Charmed have a myriad of witchy powers.

    2006 August 8, Sharon Lamb with Lyn Mikel Brown, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 96

    Synonyms: witchish, witchlike, witchly, magicianlike, magicianly, magiciany, weird, witchish

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.

Origin

  1. Old Englishwiċċe
  2. Proto-Germanic*wikkōną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wikkōn
  4. Proto-West Germanic*wikkō
  5. Old Englishwiċċa
  6. Middle Englishwicche
  7. Englishwitch
  8. Englishwitchy

From witch + -y.

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Translations

German hexenartig, hexengleich
  • hexenartigwitchlike
  • hexengleichwitchlike
Spanish embrujado, brujeril
  • embrujadowitchlike
  • brujerilwitchlike
  • brujescowitchlike
  • brujilwitchlike

Rhymes & wordplay

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Chicago

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