peaky

Adjective
Synonyms: spiky

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. having or as if having especially high-pitched spots“absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass”Synonyms: spikyOpposite lowSimilar high, high-pitched
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Peak′y (pēk′y̆), adjective

1. Having a peak or peaks. Alfred Tennyson

2. Sickly; peaked. colloquial

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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