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stiltish

stiltish adjective: resembling stilts; stiltlike.

Adjective

stiltish (comparative more stiltish, superlative most stiltish)

  1. Resembling stilts; stiltlike
    • From the beginning, the child called Margar was shockingly like him. She developed stiltish legs and dangling arms, flat brown hair, and eyes that loomed in her face as though not quite fixed there – too big for the fine bones, too searching.2012, Kristen Den Hartog, Origin of Haloes
  2. stilted; awkward

Forms of stiltish

comparativemore stiltish
superlativemost stiltish

Origin of stiltish

From stilt + -ish.

Questions about stiltish

What does stiltish mean?
Stiltish means resembling stilts; stiltlike.
What part of speech is stiltish?
Stiltish is an adjective.

Words near stiltish in the dictionary

  1. stiltify
  2. stiltifying
  3. stiltiness
  4. stilting
  5. stiltings
  6. stiltish
  7. stiltlike
  8. Stiltner
  9. Stiltners
  10. stilton
  11. stiltons

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