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形容詞

clockworky (comparative more clockworky, superlative most clockworky)

1. (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.