Meaning of toothpicky | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a toothpick.

Examples

“Looking at the toothpicky TV antennas which stuck up everywhere at odd angles, Daphne remembered more things.”

““I can’t promise that I won’t dash outside during the storm, though,” I said. “A cold rain sounds like heaven right about now.” / “Absolutely not,” Nanny declared. “With all these hills and those toothpicky pine trees that’ll tip over you if you so much as blow on ’em? You will stay inside with me.[…]””

“I was looking straight at the eardrum, and it was much more complicated. The top third was thin and pinkish; the rest was thicker and grayer, with a toothpicky bone down the middle.”

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