cockroachyadj.

1836 E. Eden Let. 7 Nov. in Lett. from India (1872) I. 250 The ‘Windsor’ came in..from Portsmouth... I mean to keep my eye on her for my return coach, but she will be very cockroachy by the time we go home, I am afraid.

1856 Hunt's Yachting Mag. May 227 Monday.—A concoction..manufactured from salt junk cut into dice, and stewed with pieces of the cock-roachy biscuit.

1888 E. P. Mathers Golden S. Afr. vi. 63 Rain fell fast, and four men were glad to huddle together in the terribly cockroachy hut.

1906 A. B. Paterson Outback Marriage xix. 177 ‘Don't yer know 'er ?’ he repeated, pausing in his task of scooping some black cockroachy sugar from the bottom of a bin.

1957 Hudson Rev. 10 105 The wife, groping on the cockroachy floor under the bed, cries.

2015 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 18 July The whole idea of trying to protect your kids from cockroachy hostels is just long distance mollycoddling.

a1845 W. Griffith Itinerary Notes Plants collected in Khasyah & Bootan Mountains, 1837–8 (1848) ii. 203 Species singularis, to be called on account of its Cockroachy smell.

1858 A. Leotand Birds: Ess. Ornithol. Trinidad in L. A. A. de Verteuil Trinidad 436 I have..partaken of them [sc. guacharos or oilbirds], but..in consequence of a certain cockroachy flavour, which is the reverse of tempting, I have for a long time discarded that dish.

1933 C. McKay Banana Bottom xi. 136 Enormous rat-bats..circling in and out of the cave, which was thick with them and their cockroachy odour.

1964 Hudson Rev. 17 313 ‘Each man's past is his Nemesis,’ he concludes, but he must hug his cockroachy memories even though he swoons with nausea at their recollection.

2011 T. Blacklaws Cruel Crazy Beautiful World xxiv. 103 Jabulani thinks of how this cockroachy thing called racism will always survive..in one form or another.

2016 Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Saturday Review section) 7 In District 9 the aliens all looked like giant cockroachy slimeball frog things.