LekhoriLekhoriResembling or characteristic of cockroaches.
(a).—Active, wary, light-brown insects with a “roachy” odour, found in pantries and bakeries; several species but the most common is the Croton-Bug or German Cockroach. (Ectobia Germanica)
Infested with cockroaches.
“Shelter is shelter, such a night as this, if it is the waste and desert gloom of Malone’s establishment with its mackerel-scented halls and roachy corners,” she continued, plunging into the shadows of the long, dim hall, and feeling in the dark for her door-knob; […]
From roach + -y.
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