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English
Etymology
From clockwork + -y.
Adjective
clockworky (comparative more clockworky, superlative most clockworky)
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of clockwork.
1988, Lin Carter, Callipygia, page 122:...its innards hummed and buzzed, clicked and purred, whizzed and clacked and whirred, and made other annoying clockworky noises...
2006, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Strictest School in the World, page 150:He had cleared it of springs, tubes, coils and clockworky bits for the occasion.