toothpicky

English

Etymology

From toothpick +‎ -y.

Adjective

toothpicky (comparative more toothpicky, superlative most toothpicky)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a toothpick.

   Synonym: toothpicklike

   • 1973, Albert Zuckerman, chapter 3, in Tiger Kittens, Garden City, N.Y.: […] [F]or the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 30:

     Looking at the toothpicky TV antennas which stuck up everywhere at odd angles, Daphne remembered more things.

   • 2015, A. Destiny, Elizabeth Lenhard, Our Song (Flirt), Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 152:

     “I can’t promise that I won’t dash outside during the storm, though,” I said. “A cold rain sounds like heaven right about now.” / “Absolutely not,” Nanny declared. “With all these hills and those toothpicky pine trees that’ll tip over you if you so much as blow on ’em? You will stay inside with me. […]”

   • 2017, James Alan Gardner, All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 104:

     I was looking straight at the eardrum, and it was much more complicated. The top third was thin and pinkish; the rest was thicker and grayer, with a toothpicky bone down the middle.