stabby
/ˈstæbi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Penetrating and hostile.
Example Sentences
- "At any rate there flourished by the curbing, sure enough, a wide and very stabby cactus garden, extending Tartar hospitality."
- "The crowd hates the picadors who deprive the bull of its first energy to fight. The picador is fat. He's got a long pole with a stabby thing on the end. His horse is blinded in cloth. His horse is old on its last legs."
- "Roxy was knitting tiny finger-puppet monsters. The Gem was peppered with balls of wool and potentially stabby knitting needles."
- "By means of a clever arrangement of springs down below that responded to an electric current, the whole mechanism was able to move up and down and backward and forward in short stabby jerks that were supposed to stir up your gizzard in practically the same way as the motion of a horse."
- "Because they would be coming any minute now, any second, actually, and the only warning he would get would be the sound of the opening of the outside door and then two pairs of footsteps in the hall, the one sharp and stabby and the other flat, flat as the palm of your hand […]"
- "Neither possesses a serve fast enough to dent a radar gun and their stabby backhands resemble karate chops."
Etymology
From stab + -y.