pitchy

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From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black. Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!

Rhymes with -ɪtʃi

Etymology tree

English pitch

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English pitchy

From pitch + -y.

Off pitch; out of tune. […] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.