a. [f. CHINK sb.2 + -Y1.] Characterized by, or full of, chinks.

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c. 1645.  Howell, Lett., I. xxiii. 45. Those Rayes … scorch and parch this chinky gaping soyl.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 63. Plaister thou their chinky Hives with Clay.

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a. 1774.  Goldsm., Exp. Phil. (1776), I. 327. The vapours … trickle downwards into the chinky bed of the hills.

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1863.  Worsley, Poems & Transl., 156. And, torn from its familiar flood, The chinky pinnace rots apace.

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