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scalpy

scalpy adjective: of or relating to scalps.

Adjective

scalpy (comparative more scalpy, superlative most scalpy)

  1. Of or relating to scalps.
    • Across his back a stringless bow, / And emptied quiver swung, — / And in his sinewy hand, he bore / His scalpy trophies — red with gore.1837, E. D. Kennicott, Zethe: and other poems
    • He scored exactly once, with a young hippie from Oregon who had ketchup stains on her chemise and a scalpy smell so overpowering that he spent much of the night breathing through his mouth.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Examples of scalpy in a sentence

  • The synaesthetic mix of her deep smile, the scalpy chemical pong of the salon.2008, Ray Robinson, The Man Without, page 314:
  • I could smell his scalpy hair smell. see the way he used to sit with his knees together and his toes pointed in.2013, Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In, page 396:

Forms of scalpy

comparativemore scalpy
superlativemost scalpy

Origin of scalpy

From scalp + -y.

Questions about scalpy

What does scalpy mean?
Scalpy means of or relating to scalps.
How do you use scalpy in a sentence?
The synaesthetic mix of her deep smile, the scalpy chemical pong of the salon.
What part of speech is scalpy?
Scalpy is an adjective.

Words near scalpy in the dictionary

  1. scalpne
  2. scalpra
  3. scalpriform
  4. scalprum
  5. scalps
  6. scalpy
  7. scals
  8. scaly
  9. scaly anteater
  10. scaly anteaters
  11. scaly clam

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