1.
[syn: peaky, spiky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Peaky \Peak"y\ (p[=e]k"[y^]), a.
1. Having a peak or peaks. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
2. Sickly; peaked. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
peaky
adj 1: having or as if having especially high-pitched spots;
"absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass" [syn:
peaky, spiky]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "peaky":
acicular, acuminate, acute, ailing, ashen, cuspidate, drained,
drawn, emaciated, feeble, gaunt, haggard, hollow-eyed, ill, infirm,
pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaking, pinched, sallow, sharp, sick,
sickly, unhealthy, unwell, unwholesome, wan, washed out, wasted,
waxen, weak, whey-faced