[1590–1600; brick + -y1]This word is first recorded in the period 1590–1600. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: class, dummy, jolt, tube, volunteer-y is a native English suffix of adjectives meaning “characterized by or inclined to”the substance or action of the word or stem to which the suffix is attached. Otherwords that use the affix -y include: dreamy, grouchy, juicy, rumbly
Examples of 'bricky' in a sentence
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How gloomy, bricky, hessianlined and poky it was.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
This bricky red bronze gives the perfect hit of colour.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
True, the front has barely changed and still looks implacably bricky.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I work on a building site and this emormous body-building bloke battered a bricky and got away with it.
The Sun (2014)
Lovely birds: classic thrushy speckles with the addition of a creamy eyebrow and bricky-red flanks.