roachy

Adjective

1. Resembling or characteristic of cockroaches.
   • (a).—Active, wary, light-brown insects with a “roachy” odour, found in pantries and bakeries; several species but the most common is the Croton-Bug or German Cockroach. (Ectobia Germanica) - 1915, W. Lochhead, “Insects...
   • Why, it leaves spots, and if you should take a cup and saucer, probably put coffee in it and drink out of it, you have a roachy taste which you may imagine it might be the food that is spoiled, something of that kind,...
   • The harm the cockroach does, however, is not so much in the quantity of food it consumes as in the amount it taints and spoils; it leaves its excreta over everything, and tainted food, even when cooked, has a distinctly...

   Synonyms: cockroachy

2. Infested with cockroaches.
   • “Shelter is shelter, such a night as this, if it is the waste and desert gloom of Malone’s establishment with its mackerel-scented halls and roachy corners,” she continued, plunging into the shadows of the long, dim...
   • Another letter tells of visiting Mary Earle on Long Island. It sounds fine, but you are right that romantic things really happened in roachy kitchens and back yards. - 1937 October 8, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, edited...
   • Better than the years of country bars and cheap hotels, though, tuning up in dirty toilets or roachy kitchens where cooks and waiters dodged your guitar neck and wished you’d get the hell out of their way. - 1995,...

   Synonyms: cockroachy