scaffoldy
scaffoldy adjective: of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.
Adjective
scaffoldy (comparative more scaffoldy, superlative most scaffoldy)
- Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.
- "The result has rather a scaffoldy and incomplete appearance, which would be happily remedied by the coloring brush and a few shadings, easily thrown in, but the measurements are correct, and the proportions and the relations of the several of the several buildings to one another, are accurately...1882, Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest, Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters ..., Issue 13
- Resembling a scaffold.
- Evan pushed the twist of hair off his forehead and regarded the shadow. It was long and straight and lean and scaffoldy, like a cross on a spire.1965, {unattributed}, The Prairie Schooner - Volume 25 - Page 90
Forms of scaffoldy
| comparative | more scaffoldy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most scaffoldy |
Origin of scaffoldy
From scaffold + -y.
Questions about scaffoldy
- What does scaffoldy mean?
- Scaffoldy means of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.
- What part of speech is scaffoldy?
- Scaffoldy is an adjective.
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