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ferrety

ferrety adjective: ferretlike.

Adjective

ferrety (comparative more ferrety, superlative most ferrety)

  1. Ferretlike.
    • When my treble whiskey finally came it was actually a stingy double, so I said so. The ferrety adolescent just shrugged. No apology, just a shrug.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 167
    • […] a stoaty-ferrety thing out for a mid-morning jog.2017, Geoff Woods, Looking Up, Looking Down, page 217

Forms of ferrety

comparativemore ferrety
superlativemost ferrety

Origin of ferrety

From ferret + -y.

Questions about ferrety

What does ferrety mean?
Ferrety means ferretlike.
What part of speech is ferrety?
Ferrety is an adjective.

Words near ferrety in the dictionary

  1. ferretsona
  2. ferretsonas
  3. Ferretti
  4. Ferrettis
  5. ferretto
  6. ferrety
  7. Ferreyra
  8. Ferreyras
  9. Ferri
  10. ferri-
  11. ferri-obertiite

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