Meaning of cockroachy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Infested with cockroaches.
   informal
2. Resembling or characteristic of cockroaches.
   informal

Examples

“Look at me, another accessory, come two thousand miles on a garlicky, cockroachy banana steamer all the way from South America to connive at the sacrifice...”

“By morning, the place seemed familiar in a cockroachy sort of way. Bibianna lent me a clean T-shirt to wear with my red miniskirt.”

“Species singularis, to be called on account of its Cockroachy smell.”

“This variety has a very strong cockroachy odour, similar to Pachycondyla soror.”

“The young birds are also regarded as a table delicacy by the natives and many white men. Epicures dislike oil-birds because of an alleged “cockroachy” taste.”

“They had been captured by these clicking, cockroachy things almost as soon as they had left the TARDIS, and it stung the tribeswoman’s honour that she hadn’t had so much as a chance to retaliate.”

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