crayfishy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of crayfish.
Example Sentences
- "“I’ll see if I can find a helgramite,” Nicky said. “No fish can refuse that.” / Laner laughed. “It sounds tough.” / “It’s a small crayfishy-looking creature. You wouldn’t like it.”"
- "The wind was advertising the river’s smell – damp, raw and crayfishy."
- "We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there."
- "Evil little crayfishy aliens inhabit teachers’ bodies at a run-down high school in this clever variation on the body-snatchers theme."
- "Seafood you never heard of, like barramundi, shark lips, and Balmain bugs (not the designer, but a crayfishy crustacean) also is popular, since about 99 percent of the population lives on the coast."
- "I remember the crayfishy smell of the creek under the one-lane bridge, near where foxes ran: this was where I found, anchored by its shaft in the sandy mud of the creek bank, a red-tailed feather leaning in the breeze."
Etymology
From crayfish + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more crayfishy (comparative)
most crayfishy (superlative)