Meanings
comparative witchier · superlative witchiest
- 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 92Sabrina 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 96Synonyms: witchish, witchlike, witchly, magicianlike, magicianly, magiciany, weird, witchish
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.
Origin
- Old Englishwiċċe
- Proto-Germanic*wikkōną
- Proto-West Germanic*wikkōn
- Proto-West Germanic*wikkō
- Old Englishwiċċa
- Middle Englishwicche
- Englishwitch
- Englishwitchy
Translations
German hexenartig, hexengleich
- hexenartigwitchlike
- hexengleichwitchlike
Spanish embrujado, brujeril
- embrujadowitchlike
- brujerilwitchlike
- brujescowitchlike
- brujilwitchlike
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with witchy
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