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Attic vs Atticky - What's the difference?

attic | atticky |

As adjectives the difference between attic and atticky

is that attic is relating to Athenian culture or architecture while atticky is resembling an attic or some aspect of one.

As a noun attic

is the space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

As a proper noun Attic

is an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Attica, Euboea, and the northern coastal regions of the Aegean Sea.

attic

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
    • We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.

    Anagrams

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    atticky

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Resembling an attic or some aspect of one.
  • * 1922 , Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rough-hewn
    • ...with its nice atticky smell that no other house in the world had! It just fitted all around you, when you went in the door...
  • * 1998 , Maeve Brennan, The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin
    • She had no intention of giving up her flat, especially since her rent included the three little atticky rooms on the third floor, the top floor of the house...
  • * 2008 , Melissa J Delbridge, Family Bible
    • You'd think it might hold the scent of smoke, or an atticky perfume of mouse and moth-wing.

    Synonyms

    * atticlike