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English
Etymology
From firework + -y.
Adjective
fireworky (comparative more fireworky, superlative most fireworky)
- Resembling or characteristic of a firework.
1863, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar, Volume 8, page 95:The old man is severe; he's inclined to be fireworky. Don't like to be answered. I thought he was going to hit me the other day.
1922, D H Lawrence, “Sleep and Dreams”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 234:I know it is not so fireworky as the sudden evolving of life, somewhere, somewhen and somehow, out of force and matter, with a pop.