1 existing or happening in some places and not others:
patchy fog * The grass was dry and patchy.
2 (AmE also spotty) not complete; good in some parts, but not in others:
a patchy knowledge of Spanish * It was a patchy performance.
patchily adverb:
a species of flower that occurs patchily on this island
patchiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for patchy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is patchy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, patchy is tagged as adjective.
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