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▪ I. peaky, a.1|ˈpiːkɪ|
[f. peak n.2 + -y.]
1. Abounding in, or characterized by having, peaks.
1832Tennyson Pal. Art xxix, Hills with peaky tops engrail'd. 1855J. D. Forbes Tour Mont Blanc viii. 182 The peaky ridge just described. 1858Chamb. Jrnl. X. 227 The sun approached the edge of the peaky horizon.
2. Peaked, pointed; peak-like.
1869Macdonald Settlement (1877) 47 (E.D.D.) A..face, with a peaky little bit of a nose. 1878Lady Burton Arabia, etc. xii. 270 The Konkanis [wear] peaky slippers. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xxxviii. 251 A poor mongrel dog,..with ragged ears, a peaky nose. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 209 The peaky thoughtful countenance.
3. Special collocations, as peaky blinder, formerly, a hooligan active in the Birmingham area and distinguished by his hat, worn pulled into a peak over the eyes.
1896Birmingham Daily Argus 17 Nov. 2/3 Is there..any Volunteer officer who will come down and captain a company of budding ‘peaky blinders’? 1898Daily News 22 Oct. 2/5 The woman..saw the two ‘peaky blinders’ leaving on Thursday morning. 1901N. & Q. Feb. 94/2 Peakyblinder.., the ‘larrikins’, ‘rufflers’, or ‘hoodlums’ of the Midlands are thus known from a custom they adopted of wearing the peak of their cap drawn down over their eyes when at their nefarious practices. 1971B. Sleigh Smell of Privet x. 82 A mission in..Birmingham which took in some of the notorious Peaky Blinders.
▪ II. ˈpeaky, peeky, a.2 colloq. and dial.
[Connected with peak v.1 4, and with peaked a. 2, peaking ppl. a. 2, peakish a.1 3.]
a. Sickly, feeble, wasted, puny; = peaking ppl. a. 2.
1821M. Edgeworth Let. 23 Oct. (1971) 240 Poor young Worthington himself is rather peeky-weakee. He has a sore throat. 1853[implied in peakyish]. 1873Ruskin Fors Clav. xxvi. III. 16 A poor peeky, little sprouting crocus. 1881E. J. Worboise Sissie ix, The second child has sickened, and the third is reported to be looking ‘peeky’. 1889Blackmore Kit viii, Peaky.
b. Comb., as peaky-faced adj.
1906Westm. Gaz. 12 May 11/2 A peaky-faced boy of about nine. 1910Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 53/1 He looked at the peaky-faced boy with the scared black eyes.
Hence ˈpeakyish a., somewhat ‘peaky’.
1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. viii, Peakyish you feel, don't you?
▪ III. peaky
var. form of pecky a. |