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stripey

stripey is the alternative spelling of stripy.

Noun

stripey (plural stripeys)

  1. (Australia) A marine fish found from Australia to Hawaii and Japan, Microcanthus strigosus, which is sometimes kept in aquaria.
  2. Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae.

Meaning of stripy

Adjective

stripy (comparative stripier, superlative stripiest)

  1. Having stripes; striped.
    • He looked like a baby zebra, curled up in his stripy T-shirt.

Forms of stripey

Adjective
comparativestripier
superlativestripiest
Noun
pluralstripeys

Origin of stripey

From stripe + -y.

Questions about stripey

What does stripey mean?
Stripey means a marine fish found from Australia to Hawaii and Japan, Microcanthus strigosus, which is sometimes kept in aquaria.
What is stripey the alternative spelling of?
Stripey is the alternative spelling of stripy.
What part of speech is stripey?
Stripey is a noun.
What is the plural of stripey?
The plural of stripey is stripeys.

Words near stripey in the dictionary

  1. stripetail
  2. stripetail darter
  3. stripetail darters
  4. stripetails
  5. stripewise
  6. stripey
  7. stripeys
  8. stripier
  9. stripiest
  10. stripiness
  11. striping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stripey (page history and authors); stripy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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