fireworky

English

Etymology

From firework +‎ -y.

Adjective

fireworky (comparative more fireworky, superlative most fireworky)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a firework.
   • 1863, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar, Volume 8, page 95:

     The old man is severe; he's inclined to be fireworky. Don't like to be answered. I thought he was going to hit me the other day.

   • 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Sleep and Dreams”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 234:

     I know it is not so fireworky as the sudden evolving of life, somewhere, somewhen and somehow, out of force and matter, with a pop.