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Definition of Switchy
1. a. Whisking.
Definition of Switchy
1. Adjective. (colloquial) Having a whisking motion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Switchy
1. full of switches [adj SWITCHIER, SWITCHIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Switchy
Literary usage of Switchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indian Forester (1891)
"This same fact may be proved in a more direct manner thus :—Cut away all the
thick culms by the base leaving only the switchy shoots, and the production of ..."
2. Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two by Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton (1879)
"I do not know of any one who draws the switchy curves of grasses and the intricate
tracery of stems and their subdivisions with a truer, bolder hand than ..."
3. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1888)
"A small switchy cane completed his street costume. DOES LITERATURE PAY?—"While
there are in this country to-day a dozen writers who make a handsome income, ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1888)
"His top coat reached nearly to the ground, with a straight collar and two buttons
near the top. A small switchy cane completed his street costume. ..."
5. The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque by William Combe (1838)
"Quoth Syntax, " You must ask the shears; And now, perhaps, her switchy tail Hangs
on a barn-door, from a nail!" The Doctor then began to state Poor ..."
6. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"He cocked his long, hard, switchy tail straight out like a rod, and throwing up
his hind legs, he kicked about on this side and on that, ..."
7. Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under by McHenry Howard (1914)
"While I stopped and talked with him the bullets coming through the switchy woods
sounded somewhat like the hissing of a hail or sleet storm. ..."
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