| bitey | (adjective) Having a tendency to bite aggressively | - |
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| boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| cagey | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagy, chary |
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| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagy, canny, clever |
| choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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| clayey | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: argillaceous |
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| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: cloggy, heavy |
| cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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| cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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| curvey | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvy |
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| dicey | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dodgy |
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| dickey | (adjective) (British informal) faulty | Synonyms: dicky |
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| dopey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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| fey | (adjective) slightly insane | Synonyms: touched |
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| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: elfin |
| flakey | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| flukey | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, fluky, iffy |
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| gamey | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamy, high |
| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
| gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| gooey | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: icky |
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| goosey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosy, jerky |
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| grapey | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapy |
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| grey | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: gray |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: gray |
| hokey | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, stilted |
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| (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
| holey | (adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: porous |
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| homey | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homely, homy |
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| honey | (adjective) of something having the color of honey | - |
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| key | (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, primal |
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| mangey | (adjective) having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap | Synonyms: mangy |
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| matey | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, pally, palsy-walsy |
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| motley | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry |
| mousey | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousy |
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| (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousy |
| (adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousy |
| multistorey | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistoried, multistory |
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| nosey | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosy, prying, snoopy |
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| phoney | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phony |
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| plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
| pokey | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, poky |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, poky |
| pricey | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricy |
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| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| scaley | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaly |
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| slatey | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, slaty, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| spacey | (adjective) stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | Synonyms: spaced-out, spacy |
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| stagey | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagy |
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| whiney | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiny |
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| winey | (adjective) having the taste of wine | Synonyms: winy |
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