crayfishy
crayfishy adjective: resembling or characteristic of crayfish.
Adjective
crayfishy (comparative more crayfishy, superlative most crayfishy)
- Resembling or characteristic of crayfish.
- “I’ll see if I can find a helgramite,” Nicky said. “No fish can refuse that.” / Laner laughed. “It sounds tough.” / “It’s a small crayfishy-looking creature. You wouldn’t like it.”1950, T[homas] Morris Longstreth, chapter 5, in Showdown, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 111
- The wind was advertising the river’s smell – damp, raw and crayfishy.1970, C[yril] Everard Palmer, “Epilogue”, in The Sun Salutes You, London: Andre Deutsch, →ISBN, page 143
- Synonyms:
- crawfishy
Examples of crayfishy in a sentence
- We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there.1986 May, Diane Carey, chapter 2, in Dreadnought! (A Star Trek® Novel; 29), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23:
- Evil little crayfishy aliens inhabit teachers’ bodies at a run-down high school in this clever variation on the body-snatchers theme.1999 January 7, Jane Horwitz, “[The Family Filmgoer: David vs. Goliath in court] ‘The Faculty’ (R, 1 hour, 42 minutes)”, in The Buffalo...
- Seafood you never heard of, like barramundi, shark lips, and Balmain bugs (not the designer, but a crayfishy crustacean) also is popular, since about 99 percent of the population lives on the coast.2000 September 17, Karen Mamone, “cooking with attitude: Cake from Down Under”, in Northeast (Hartford Courant), Hartford, Conn., page 14:
- None of this was a problem – though he certainly favoured his normal pilchard over the crayfishy things that Angela had arranged.2014, Mike Uden, “Dr Francis Taylor”, in Chemical Attraction, London: Thames River Press, →ISBN, page 74:
Synonyms of crayfishy
Forms of crayfishy
| comparative | more crayfishy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most crayfishy |
Origin of crayfishy
From crayfish + -y.
Questions about crayfishy
- What does crayfishy mean?
- Crayfishy means resembling or characteristic of crayfish.
- How do you use crayfishy in a sentence?
- We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there.
- What part of speech is crayfishy?
- Crayfishy is an adjective.
Words near crayfishy in the dictionary
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