- The definition of zincy is seeming like the bluish-white element called zinc.
An example of something zincy is a piece of galvanized iron.
These galvanized rods are zincy.
(comparative more zincy, superlative most zincy)
- containing zinc.
Variant of zinc
a bluish-white, metallic chemical element, usually found in combination, used as a protective coating for iron, as a constituent in various alloys, as an electrode in electric batteries, and, in the form of salts, in medicines: symbol, Zn; at. no., 30
Origin of zincGerman zink, zinc, origin, originally , prong, point: first used by Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (c. 1526): from the form of the crystals on smelting; akin to Old High German zint, a point, jag ; from Germanic an unverified form tindja from source tine