pitchyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈpɪtʃi/, U.S.

/ˈpɪtʃi/

Forms:

α. late Middle English pycchy, late Middle English pychy, 1500s pitchye, 1500s–1600s pichie, 1500s–1600s pitchie, 1500s– pitchy.

β. Scottish pre-1700 pykky, pre-1700 pyky, pre-1700 1800s pikky, 1800s pikkie, 1900s– pickie, 1900s– picky.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pitch n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < pitch n.¹ + -y suffix¹.With pitchy-coloured adj. at Compounds 1a compare slightly later pitch-coloured adj. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 1b. With pitchy dark adj. at Compounds 1a compare earlier pitch dark adj. and n. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 2. With pitchy black at Compounds 1b compare slightly earlier pitch black adj. and n. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 2.

1. Full of or having much pitch; coated, smeared, or sticky with pitch. Of a flame or smoke: produced by, or as if by, burning pitch; dark, blackened. Also figurative.Recorded earliest in pitchy cap n. at Compounds 2 and pitchy emplaster n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened > with pitch

pitchy?a1425

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [adjective] > of the nature of bitumen or pitch > full of or covered with

pitchy?a1425

pitched?1440

tarrya1585

bepitched1611

bituminated1628

bituminous1658

bituminized1816

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [adjective]

light-fingered1546

lime-fingered1546

pilfering1546

fine-fingeredc1555

filching1570

mitching1576

lurching1577

lime-twig1602

nimming1603

pitchy1660

fingerative1674

marauding1748

light-handed1769

tarry1822

tarry-fingered1825

sticky-fingered1855

panhandling1884

tarry-fisted1906

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 121^v (MED) Iamerius cureþ þe olde tineam in pullyng out þe herez..with a pychy cappe.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 99^v Be þe nutriment, i. noreshyng, drawen to þe place wiþ fricacions & embrocacions & pycchy [?c1425 Paris of picche; L. piceis] emplastrez.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. ii. 97 The tallownit burdis kest a pyky low.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xii. 32 Out thrawis the pikky smok cole blak.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 57 The Pine tree is called holdfast or pitchie tre.

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. sig. I^v No heate of sinne make thy iust wrath to boile In thy distemp'red bosome, and ore-flow The pitchy blazes of impietie Kindled beneath thy throne.

1660 Eng. Monarchy Freest State in World 7 All publick Monies..passing through the pitchy claws of such State harpies.

1742 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper App. ii. 120 The Black, Pitchy, Flinty Rock found immediately over coals.

1845 J. G. Whittier Lumbermen viii Pitchy knot and beechen splinter On our hearth shall glow.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals (1877) I. ii. 281 Nero illuminated his gardens during the night by Christians burning in their pitchy shirts.

1919 H. S. Betts Timber 65 Fence posts chosen from a pitchy material last longer than similar posts from wood with a small pitch content.

1991 P. Heselton Elem. Earth Mysteries (BNC) 94 Big bonfires made of pitchy pinewood have a peculiar mystic fascination.

a. Pitch-black, intensely dark; (of darkness) intense, thick.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark

pitchya1522

Cimmerian1598

pitch dark1704

pit-mirk1728

pitchy dark1732

pitch mirk?1795

as black, or ugly, as sin1827

the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as pitch

black as pitch?a1300

pitchya1522

pitch black1598

pitch-coloured1601

pitchy black1615

piceous1726

picescent1847

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. iii. 178 Be Stix the flude..Be that ilk pykky laik with brays blak.

1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. G4 But let thy pitchie steeds aye draw thy waine, And coaleblack silence in the world still raigne.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 202 The pitchie night had bereft vs of the conduct of our eyes.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 340 When the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day Wav'd round the Coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud Of Locusts.

1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 265 How uncomfortable is deep, pitchy, total darkness.

1787 S. T. Coleridge Poems (1912) ii Save when the lightnings darting wingéd Fate Quick bursting from the pitchy clouds between In forkéd Terror [etc.].

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. vi. 146 Then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.

1894 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (new ed.) xi. 276 Stars shone out like fiery sparks against a pitchy canopy.

1975 R. Davies World of Wonders (1977) i. vi. 44 I couldn't reason, or be sure of anything, except that I was in close quarters in pitchy darkness.

1998 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 30 Jan. Glistening nude bodies gleaming in the pitchy night.

†b. figurative. Morally black; extremely wicked. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adjective]

awlyc1200

grievousa1300

grilla1300

uglya1300

strongc1300

outrageousa1325

heinousc1374

excessive1393

curseda1400

fella1400

misshapenc1400

rankc1400

monstruousc1425

enorm1481

prodigiousc1487

villainous1489

nefand1490

sceleratea1513

monstrous1531

funestal1538

enormious1545

facinorous1548

flagitious1550

dire1567

bonable1575

felonious1575

bomination1589

unvenial?1589

heathenish1592

enormous1593

villainous1598

nameless1611

pitchy1612

funest1636

funestous1641

scarleta1643

nefandous1649

aversable1663

atrocious1669

frightful1700

flagrant1706

atrocea1734

diabolical1750

unspeakable1831

society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > evil or dark

swartOE

darkOE

black1547

flasky1575

darksome1576

pitchy1612

sable1726

1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. B2 Braue pitchy villaines there.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough vi. 83 The pitchy-taint of general Vice..you dread the touch.

1859 W. Kirby U.E.: Tale Upper Canada 92 To keep alive the spark of truth within, Purge off the brute and cleanse the pitchy sin.

c. More generally (of lustre, etc.): of the colour or appearance of pitch.See also compounds at Compounds 1b.

ΚΠ

1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. x. 542 Some of the wood is beautifully opalized, though the greater part has the pitchy lustre of resinite.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 412 Carex stricta... Glumes in about 8 rows, pitchy, midrib green.

1882 Good Words 23 165 Deep black coals with pitchy lustre.

1912 A. H. Phillips Mineralogy ii. xi. 525 Uraninite... Luster, greasy, pitchy, or dull submetallc.

1991 Ceramic Industry (Nexis) Jan. 25 The mineral is jet black to grayish or brownish black with a luster ranging from brilliant shiny to pitchy, resinous, dull, and submetallic.

3. Of the nature or consistency of pitch; viscous, sticky; bituminous.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [adjective] > of the nature of bitumen or pitch

pitchy1552

bituminous1620

bituminose1701

piciform1876

bituminoid1878

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pitchye, or of pytche, piceus.

1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **2 The vnsauorie sent, of the pitchie slime.

1682 R. Boyle New Exper. Icy Noctiluca 139 The Quantities of Pitchy Matter from time to time afforded by them.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 298 Every thing that thickens the Fluids, or reduceth them to a pitchy Condition.

1742 S. Richardson Pamela IV. 13 I have lately read..That a new-born Child has, in its little Bowels, a pitchy Substance, that wants to be purged off.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 684 Pitchy hydrate of iron.

1889 Harper's Mag. July 262/2 The unetched portion of the glass being protected by a coating of wax or some pitchy substance.

1933 L. H. Bailey Cultivated Conifers N. Amer. 367 A slight exudation of a yellowish pitchy substance in small droplets on the surface of the diseased area is a further indication of infection.

1978 S. King Stand xxx. 242 It looked like a black stone, so dark it seemed almost resinous and pitchy.

Compounds

C1.

pitchy-coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1597 R. Johnson 2nd Pt. Famous Hist. Seauen Champions iii. sig. F2^v He..clad himselfe in a blacke Corselet; and mounted vpon a pitchy coloured steede, adorned with a bloud-red caparison.

1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam iv. v. sig. F4 Foule villaine, can thy pitchie coloured soule Permit thine eare to heare her caules doome?

1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 124 No one leaves the house without a bow and a sheaf of arrows, whose pitchy-coloured barb-necks denote a fresh layer of poison.

2003 elfwood.lysator.liu.se 21 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) He urged himself forward in a strenuous effort to reach the pitchy coloured strip floating just beyond his grasp.

† pitchy-countenanced adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella sig. C4^v How patient then would I endure the smart, Of pitchy-countnanc'd Deaths dead-doing dart.

pitchy dark adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark

pitchya1522

Cimmerian1598

pitch dark1704

pit-mirk1728

pitchy dark1732

pitch mirk?1795

as black, or ugly, as sin1827

1732 tr. A. F. Prévost d'Exiles Life Mr. Cleveland (new ed.) I. 171 'Twas so pitchy dark, that our companions did not miss us immediately.

1800 Naval Chron. 4 436 The night being pitchy dark.

1875 J. C. Wilcocks Sea-fisherman (ed. 3) 190 They will bite when it is so pitchy dark that you cannot see to bait your hook.

1994 Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. It was pitchy dark and I watched this little pipe being passed around, this tiny orange glow.

b. With adjectives of colour, as pitchy black, etc. Cf. pitch black adj. and n. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as pitch

black as pitch?a1300

pitchya1522

pitch black1598

pitch-coloured1601

pitchy black1615

piceous1726

picescent1847

1615 P. Gordon First Pt. Famous Hist. Bruce sig. V^v Thrie scoir he brings in armour pitchie blak.

1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. II. ii. 247 By this means then, you have an alcaline oily Spirit..; a yellow Oil; and a pitchy black one.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 779 The chrysalis..is pitchy-brown..inclosed in a white woolly cocoon.

1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 120 A deep, pitchy-black pool surrounded with rocks.

1909 F. V. Theobald Insect & Other Allied Pests 368 The beetle is pitchy-brown to black in colour.

1984 R. Rendell Killing Doll (1985) 127 It was so dark, pitchy black, that at first Dolly thought they would be able to see nothing.

C2.

† pitchy cap n. Obsolete = pitch-cap n. 1.

ΚΠ

?a1425¹Pychy cappe [see sense 1].

† pitchy emplaster n. Obsolete a dressing containing pitch, used as a depilatory; cf. pitch-plaster n.

ΚΠ

?a1425²Pycchy emplastrez [see sense 1].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pitchy
释义	pitchyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈpɪtʃi/, U.S. /ˈpɪtʃi/ Forms: α. late Middle English pycchy, late Middle English pychy, 1500s pitchye, 1500s–1600s pichie, 1500s–1600s pitchie, 1500s– pitchy. β. Scottish pre-1700 pykky, pre-1700 pyky, pre-1700 1800s pikky, 1800s pikkie, 1900s– pickie, 1900s– picky. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pitch n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < pitch n.¹ + -y suffix¹.With pitchy-coloured adj. at Compounds 1a compare slightly later pitch-coloured adj. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 1b. With pitchy dark adj. at Compounds 1a compare earlier pitch dark adj. and n. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 2. With pitchy black at Compounds 1b compare slightly earlier pitch black adj. and n. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 2. 1. Full of or having much pitch; coated, smeared, or sticky with pitch. Of a flame or smoke: produced by, or as if by, burning pitch; dark, blackened. Also figurative.Recorded earliest in pitchy cap n. at Compounds 2 and pitchy emplaster n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened > with pitch pitchy?a1425 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [adjective] > of the nature of bitumen or pitch > full of or covered with pitchy?a1425 pitched?1440 tarrya1585 bepitched1611 bituminated1628 bituminous1658 bituminized1816 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [adjective] light-fingered1546 lime-fingered1546 pilfering1546 fine-fingeredc1555 filching1570 mitching1576 lurching1577 lime-twig1602 nimming1603 pitchy1660 fingerative1674 marauding1748 light-handed1769 tarry1822 tarry-fingered1825 sticky-fingered1855 panhandling1884 tarry-fisted1906 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 121^v (MED) Iamerius cureþ þe olde tineam in pullyng out þe herez..with a pychy cappe. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 99^v Be þe nutriment, i. noreshyng, drawen to þe place wiþ fricacions & embrocacions & pycchy [?c1425 Paris of picche; L. piceis] emplastrez. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. ii. 97 The tallownit burdis kest a pyky low. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xii. 32 Out thrawis the pikky smok cole blak. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 57 The Pine tree is called holdfast or pitchie tre. 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. sig. I^v No heate of sinne make thy iust wrath to boile In thy distemp'red bosome, and ore-flow The pitchy blazes of impietie Kindled beneath thy throne. View more context for this quotation 1660 Eng. Monarchy Freest State in World 7 All publick Monies..passing through the pitchy claws of such State harpies. 1742 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper App. ii. 120 The Black, Pitchy, Flinty Rock found immediately over coals. 1845 J. G. Whittier Lumbermen viii Pitchy knot and beechen splinter On our hearth shall glow. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals (1877) I. ii. 281 Nero illuminated his gardens during the night by Christians burning in their pitchy shirts. 1919 H. S. Betts Timber 65 Fence posts chosen from a pitchy material last longer than similar posts from wood with a small pitch content. 1991 P. Heselton Elem. Earth Mysteries (BNC) 94 Big bonfires made of pitchy pinewood have a peculiar mystic fascination. 2. a. Pitch-black, intensely dark; (of darkness) intense, thick. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark pitchya1522 Cimmerian1598 pitch dark1704 pit-mirk1728 pitchy dark1732 pitch mirk?1795 as black, or ugly, as sin1827 the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as pitch black as pitch?a1300 pitchya1522 pitch black1598 pitch-coloured1601 pitchy black1615 piceous1726 picescent1847 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. iii. 178 Be Stix the flude..Be that ilk pykky laik with brays blak. 1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. G4 But let thy pitchie steeds aye draw thy waine, And coaleblack silence in the world still raigne. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 202 The pitchie night had bereft vs of the conduct of our eyes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 340 When the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day Wav'd round the Coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud Of Locusts. View more context for this quotation 1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 265 How uncomfortable is deep, pitchy, total darkness. 1787 S. T. Coleridge Poems (1912) ii Save when the lightnings darting wingéd Fate Quick bursting from the pitchy clouds between In forkéd Terror [etc.]. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. vi. 146 Then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash. 1894 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (new ed.) xi. 276 Stars shone out like fiery sparks against a pitchy canopy. 1975 R. Davies World of Wonders (1977) i. vi. 44 I couldn't reason, or be sure of anything, except that I was in close quarters in pitchy darkness. 1998 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 30 Jan. Glistening nude bodies gleaming in the pitchy night. †b. figurative. Morally black; extremely wicked. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adjective] awlyc1200 grievousa1300 grilla1300 uglya1300 strongc1300 outrageousa1325 heinousc1374 excessive1393 curseda1400 fella1400 misshapenc1400 rankc1400 monstruousc1425 enorm1481 prodigiousc1487 villainous1489 nefand1490 sceleratea1513 monstrous1531 funestal1538 enormious1545 facinorous1548 flagitious1550 dire1567 bonable1575 felonious1575 bomination1589 unvenial?1589 heathenish1592 enormous1593 villainous1598 nameless1611 pitchy1612 funest1636 funestous1641 scarleta1643 nefandous1649 aversable1663 atrocious1669 frightful1700 flagrant1706 atrocea1734 diabolical1750 unspeakable1831 society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > evil or dark swartOE darkOE black1547 flasky1575 darksome1576 pitchy1612 sable1726 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. B2 Braue pitchy villaines there. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough vi. 83 The pitchy-taint of general Vice..you dread the touch. 1859 W. Kirby U.E.: Tale Upper Canada 92 To keep alive the spark of truth within, Purge off the brute and cleanse the pitchy sin. c. More generally (of lustre, etc.): of the colour or appearance of pitch.See also compounds at Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. x. 542 Some of the wood is beautifully opalized, though the greater part has the pitchy lustre of resinite. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 412 Carex stricta... Glumes in about 8 rows, pitchy, midrib green. 1882 Good Words 23 165 Deep black coals with pitchy lustre. 1912 A. H. Phillips Mineralogy ii. xi. 525 Uraninite... Luster, greasy, pitchy, or dull submetallc. 1991 Ceramic Industry (Nexis) Jan. 25 The mineral is jet black to grayish or brownish black with a luster ranging from brilliant shiny to pitchy, resinous, dull, and submetallic. 3. Of the nature or consistency of pitch; viscous, sticky; bituminous. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [adjective] > of the nature of bitumen or pitch pitchy1552 bituminous1620 bituminose1701 piciform1876 bituminoid1878 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pitchye, or of pytche, piceus. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. *2 The vnsauorie sent, of the pitchie slime. 1682 R. Boyle New Exper. Icy Noctiluca* 139 The Quantities of Pitchy Matter from time to time afforded by them. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 298 Every thing that thickens the Fluids, or reduceth them to a pitchy Condition. 1742 S. Richardson Pamela IV. 13 I have lately read..That a new-born Child has, in its little Bowels, a pitchy Substance, that wants to be purged off. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 684 Pitchy hydrate of iron. 1889 Harper's Mag. July 262/2 The unetched portion of the glass being protected by a coating of wax or some pitchy substance. 1933 L. H. Bailey Cultivated Conifers N. Amer. 367 A slight exudation of a yellowish pitchy substance in small droplets on the surface of the diseased area is a further indication of infection. 1978 S. King Stand xxx. 242 It looked like a black stone, so dark it seemed almost resinous and pitchy. Compounds C1. a. pitchy-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1597 R. Johnson 2nd Pt. Famous Hist. Seauen Champions iii. sig. F2^v He..clad himselfe in a blacke Corselet; and mounted vpon a pitchy coloured steede, adorned with a bloud-red caparison. 1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam iv. v. sig. F4 Foule villaine, can thy pitchie coloured soule Permit thine eare to heare her caules doome? 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 124 No one leaves the house without a bow and a sheaf of arrows, whose pitchy-coloured barb-necks denote a fresh layer of poison. 2003 elfwood.lysator.liu.se 21 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) He urged himself forward in a strenuous effort to reach the pitchy coloured strip floating just beyond his grasp. † pitchy-countenanced adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella sig. C4^v How patient then would I endure the smart, Of pitchy-countnanc'd Deaths dead-doing dart. pitchy dark adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark pitchya1522 Cimmerian1598 pitch dark1704 pit-mirk1728 pitchy dark1732 pitch mirk?1795 as black, or ugly, as sin1827 1732 tr. A. F. Prévost d'Exiles Life Mr. Cleveland (new ed.) I. 171 'Twas so pitchy dark, that our companions did not miss us immediately. 1800 Naval Chron. 4 436 The night being pitchy dark. 1875 J. C. Wilcocks Sea-fisherman (ed. 3) 190 They will bite when it is so pitchy dark that you cannot see to bait your hook. 1994 Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. It was pitchy dark and I watched this little pipe being passed around, this tiny orange glow. b. With adjectives of colour, as pitchy black, etc. Cf. pitch black adj. and n. at pitch n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as pitch black as pitch?a1300 pitchya1522 pitch black1598 pitch-coloured1601 pitchy black1615 piceous1726 picescent1847 1615 P. Gordon First Pt. Famous Hist. Bruce sig. V^v Thrie scoir he brings in armour pitchie blak. 1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. II. ii. 247 By this means then, you have an alcaline oily Spirit..; a yellow Oil; and a pitchy black one. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 779 The chrysalis..is pitchy-brown..inclosed in a white woolly cocoon. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 120 A deep, pitchy-black pool surrounded with rocks. 1909 F. V. Theobald Insect & Other Allied Pests 368 The beetle is pitchy-brown to black in colour. 1984 R. Rendell Killing Doll (1985) 127 It was so dark, pitchy black, that at first Dolly thought they would be able to see nothing. C2. † pitchy cap n. Obsolete = pitch-cap n. 1. ΚΠ ?a1425¹Pychy cappe [see sense 1]. † pitchy emplaster n. Obsolete a dressing containing pitch, used as a depilatory; cf. pitch-plaster n. ΚΠ ?a1425²Pycchy emplastrez [see sense 1]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pitchyadj.² Brit. /ˈpɪtʃi/, U.S. /ˈpɪtʃi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pitch n.², -y suffix¹. Etymology: < pitch n.² + -y suffix¹. Of singing or a singer's voice: inaccurately or unsteadily pitched, out of tune, off-key. ΚΠ 1997 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Sept. 53/1 I don't know if I like how this last line sounds... I think that one..was a little pitchy. I want to hear it again. 2019 @HaoXiangLe3 19 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 13 Mar. 2019) She's gotta work on those pitchy vocals. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.¹?a1425adj.²1997
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pitchyadj.1

Compounds

pitchyadj.2

pitchyadj.¹

pitchyadj.²