churchy

English

Etymology

From church +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɜːtʃi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃi

Adjective

churchy (comparative churchier, superlative churchiest)

(colloquial, mildly derogatory) Piously Christian.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 90:
  I was staying with my mother's sister, a retired character actress with a churchy streak.
Resembling a church.
Your house looks kind of churchy.
Reminiscent of a church service.
The party had a churchy atmosphere.

Derived terms

Translations

piously Christian

Finnish: kirkollinen (fi)
French: calotin (fr) m
Greek: θρησκόληπτος (el) (thriskóliptos)
Hungarian: bigott (hu), vakbuzgó (hu), klerikális (hu)

resembling a church

Finnish: kirkko mainen

reminiscent of a church service

Finnish: harras (fi)

Noun

churchy (plural churchies)

(mildly pejorative) one who is piously Christian

Translations

one who is piously Christian

Finnish: uskovainen (fi)
French: calotin (fr) m, bigot (fr) m

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