shivery

/ˈʃɪvəɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

adj

Archaic

"The cold night made me all shivery."
"Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay."

Etymology tree English shiver Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English shivery From shiver + -y.

shiverier (comparative) shiveriest (superlative)

shiveriness

delivery livery herbivory quivery nondelivery carnivory rivery omnivory misdelivery slivery

Questions

How do you pronounce shivery?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɪvəɹi/.

What does shivery mean?

Given to shivering; tending to shiver.

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