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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.
Adjective
pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
- Very dark black; pitch-black.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 280:In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway.
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Etymology 2
From pitch + -y.
Adjective
pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)
- (music) Off pitch; out of tune.
2014, Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, African American Music, page 381:[…] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.
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