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bansheelike

bansheelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a banshee.

Adjective

bansheelike (comparative more bansheelike, superlative most bansheelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a banshee.
    • A veteran of the tough audiences on the black rhythm and blues circuit, Houston wastes no time noodling around on stage; he begins his show from the back of the club, screaming bansheelike saxophone war cries through a cordless microphone and slowly stalking through the crowd in the general...1988 September 16, David Whiteis, “Rock's early raunch: Joe Houston saves the wails”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016
    • ... only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell befinned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet ...2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (Historical Drama; Psychological Thriller; Period Horror; Black Comedy; motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United...

Forms of bansheelike

comparativemore bansheelike
superlativemost bansheelike
alternative formbanshee-like

Origin of bansheelike

From banshee + -like.

Questions about bansheelike

What does bansheelike mean?
Bansheelike means resembling or characteristic of a banshee.
What part of speech is bansheelike?
Bansheelike is an adjective.

Words near bansheelike in the dictionary

  1. banselas
  2. Bansha
  3. banshay
  4. banshee
  5. banshee-like
  6. bansheelike
  7. banshees
  8. banshie
  9. banshies
  10. Banská Bystrica
  11. banslochan

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