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pointy, a.|ˈpɔɪntɪ|
[f. point n.1 B. + -y.]
1. Characteristically or notably pointed. Also fig.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xv. §1. 130, I haue seen some very high, and pointy spire steeples do the like. 1906Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 3/4 Puck of the pointy-ears. 1927J. Masefield Midnight Folk 113 She has..pointy, black shiny shoes. 1953A. Miller Crucible i. 20 Let either of you breathe a word,..and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. 1969M. Puzo Godfather iv. xix. 263 Conny stood with hands on hips, her face pointy and white with rage. 1975J. McClure Snake ix. 116 Her nails..were long and pointy. 1977Rolling Stone 19 May 69/3 Zbigniew Brzezinski, the president's national security adviser and a man whose every feature is pointy, enters the office.
2. Of a fleece: Having many points; bearing wool of uneven length.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 891 A good fleece should have the points of all its staples of equal length, otherwise it will be a pointy one.
3. Full of point; pithy, terse. slang.
4. a. Special collocations, as pointy-head U.S. colloq., a supposed expert or intellectual (used derogatorily); also attrib.; hence pointy-headed adj.
1972Guardian 21 Feb. 2/4 George Wallace..attacked Muskie, Humphrey, and his other ‘pointy-head’ opponents. 1972Times 5 May 6/3 Mr Wallace..dismissed it quickly at the end of his address as ‘the most callous, asinine, stupid thing that was ever conceived by some pointy-head in Washington DC’. 1972National Observer (N.Y.) 27 May 12/1, I am not ashamed of being a ‘pointy headed intellectual snob’ who notices the correlation between our ‘leadership’ and the many distressing phenomena ‘coinciding’ with those sages' descriptions. 1973J. Di Mona Last Man at Arlington (1974) 178 Idiots... Pointy heads that didn't know how to operate. 1975N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 42/2 Let the dust gather on the pointy-headed bureaucrats and all the other props from yesteryear.
b. Comb., as pointy-eared, pointy-toed adjs.: see also pointy-headed adj. above.
1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 7 They saw a small, brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared person with a snub nose. 1968A. Young in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 147 Sport shirt, creased pants, shiny black pointy-toed stetsons [sc. shoes]. 1971E. Bullins in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 61 His snake-skinned, pointy-toed shoes. 1978N.Y. Times 18 Jan. 1/3 A scene normally dominated by men with Western twangs in ten-gallon hats and pointy-toed boots. |