Resembling or having the quality of a gargoyle; grotesque and ugly in appearance.
From gargoyle plus -y (adjective-forming suffix meaning 'having the quality of'), creating a more informal variant of gargoyled.
Adding -y to nouns is how English makes casual adjectives—'gargoyley' sounds playful compared to the formal 'gargoyled,' showing how one word can feel different based on suffix choice.
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