Greeky

English

Etymology

From Greek +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːki/
• Rhymes: -iːki

Adjective

Greeky (comparative more Greeky, superlative most Greeky)

1. (informal) Somewhat Greek; Greekish.
   • 1919, Marie Conway Oemler, A Woman Named Smith:

     […] a Greeky front with white pillars, and a big old hall, and a big old garden—

   • 2020, Daniel Taylor, Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees: A Jon Mote Mystery, page 121:

     She is dressed diaphanously, like a Greeky Isadora Duncan dancing the blues away in Hemingway's Paris. She even has an ivy wreath in her hair.