Crossword clues for pitchy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitchy \Pitch"y\, a. [From 1st Pitch.]
Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
Smeared with pitch.
Black; pitch-dark; dismal. ``Pitchy night.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch. 2 Very dark black; pitch-black. 3 (context music English) Off pitch; out of tune.
WordNet
Usage examples of "pitchy".
It would be two full hours before it was light enough to form the countless tiny holes that gave pitchy bread its unique texture.
Melli sat down across the table and made a feast of piping hot pitchy bread smothered with butter and cheese.
Within the forest it was pitchy, and the constant scraping and chirring of the late autumn insects tended to cover any sound.
Even those pitchy clots of young bloods you used to see playing bongos back in alleyways had been cleared up.
But where he was sitting was pitchy dark, the high-walled canyons of the Colorado Plateau.
Drigor looked the same: face wrinkled as a winter apple, bushy white beard with six silver rings braided into his mustache, queer leather tunic with shaggy hump, stained goat hide kilt, and rusty, pitchy boots.
Grumbling, cursing, stamping pitchy boots, the dwarf dragged the sword as he stalked out.
Cyrion went to the demon-beast and plucked out his sword, and returned with it up the pitchy stairway to the iron dungeon door set in the wall.
In three long leaps the figure moved across the lighted portion and into the pitchy shadow of the ship itself.
Arms shaking from the strain, shoulders on fire with agony, I hauled my body up until my eyes were level with knotted hands: even in that almost pitchy darkness I could see the faint white blur of my gleaming knuckles.
Come great, come small, Come one, come all, Heed ye my call, List to my call, I say, From pitchy gloom Of mouldered tomb Here find ye room For sport and holiday.
She gathered pitchy barks and limbs of fir and pine, dug through rotted old stumps for residual hard lumps that caught fire quickly, and pulled up bunches of dry grass.
He wrapped the pitchy bark and dry twigs with tough grass to the end of the green branch, and carefully removing the live coal from the anrochs horn at his waist, he held it to the pitch and began to blow.
Goov turned abruptly, picked up a burning, pitchy pine branch from the fire that had been started while Ayla was in the cave, walked up the slope, and disappeared into the, dark triangular mouth.
Two Fingers almost swiped him with his torch as the man leaped past, Laoina at his heels, coughing as she took in a lungful of pitchy smoke.