Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black.
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!
Off pitch; out of tune.
[…] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.
From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.
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