adj. (colloquial).—Vulgarly or cheaply attractive; of a quality to take the eye or ear; easily caught and remembered (as a tune). Wrongly used in quot. 1885.
1831. Fraser’s Magazine, III., 679. A CATCHY, stage-like effect. [M.]
1885. S. O. ADDY, in Notes and Queries, 6 S., xii., 143. This seemed to be like one of those CATCHY questions which examiners in law and history are said to ‘stump’ the candidates.
