pitchy
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.
Adjective edit
pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
- Very dark black; pitch-black.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
- Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 280:
- In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway.
- 1961, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, Knopf, page 44:
- To make it worse, something went wrong wit the Glow-worm's lighting system, and the room was in pitchy darkness.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From pitch + -y. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective edit
pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)
- (music) Off pitch; out of tune.