atticky

Resembling or characteristic of an attic.

Adjective

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an attic.
    • […] with its nice atticky smell that no other house in the world had! It just fitted all around you, when you went in the door […] - 1922, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rough-hewn:
    • She had no intention of giving up her flat, especially since her rent included the three little atticky rooms on the third floor, the top floor of the house […] - 1998, Maeve Brennan, The Springs of Affection: Stories...
    • You'd think it might hold the scent of smoke, or an atticky perfume of mouse and moth-wing. - 2008, Melissa J Delbridge, Family Bible:

Origin

From attic + -y.

Forms

more atticky most atticky

Synonyms

atticlike