battleshippy
battleshippy adjective: of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.
Adjective
battleshippy (comparative more battleshippy, superlative most battleshippy)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.
- She couldn't have been so battleshippy, either, and it's no wonder she had so little trouble picking a husband, though why she picked Edgar Dudley I can't imagine, unless it was because of the mica mine.1928, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 200, page 88
- But if you put a carrier up as a second strike strategic potential in a nuclear all-out war, I must say that is a little battleshippy to me, or the long-range subsonic bomber so far as the future is concerned.1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military procurement authorization fiscal year 1962: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate...
Forms of battleshippy
| comparative | more battleshippy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most battleshippy |
Origin of battleshippy
From battleship + -y.
Questions about battleshippy
- What does battleshippy mean?
- Battleshippy means of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.
- What part of speech is battleshippy?
- Battleshippy is an adjective.
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