shipwrecky
English
WOTD – 29 July 2012
Etymology
shipwreck + -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɪpɹɛki/
Audio (AU) (file)
Adjective
shipwrecky (comparative more shipwrecky, superlative most shipwrecky)
- Characteristic of a shipwreck.
- 1896, Elizabeth Westyn Timlow, Cricket at the Seashore, Estes and Lauriat (1896), Chapter VI:
- "I was only joking. We've escaped from a burning vessel, you know, and every one else is either burned or drowned. We've provisions for a month, if we don't eat too much, and we're in the South Sea Islands. South Sea Islands sound nice and shipwrecky, don't you think so?"
- 1896, Elizabeth Westyn Timlow, Cricket at the Seashore, Estes and Lauriat (1896), Chapter VI:
- (figuratively) Weak, feeble; shaky.
- 2007, Riaan Manser, Around Africa on My Bicycle, Jonathan Ball Publishers (2007), →ISBN, page 301:
- So there I was, standing by the roadside in pitch darkness with my belongings and shipwrecky knees.
- 2007, Riaan Manser, Around Africa on My Bicycle, Jonathan Ball Publishers (2007), →ISBN, page 301:
Quotations
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:shipwrecky.
Translations
characteristic of shipwreck
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weak, feeble, shaky
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