streaky
/ˈstɹiːki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
adj
Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "Although the two added thirteen important runs, including four byes let through by Mongia and a streaky outside edge cum late-cut by Pollock for four, one didn't need to be blessed with gifts of insight to realise that Pollock's days at the crease were numbered."
- "...rather than hitting it with the middle of the bat, I jagged it off the inside edge and French-cut it over the top of the stumps for another four. That was the only streaky shot I can remember."
- "Compton troubled Bradman with his Chinaman, and one streaky shot was edged past Crapp at slips."
- "[…] to do his duty in the face of uncommonly streaky weather like a man."
- "[Nebraska] has a reputation for streaky weather, long stretches of drouth and long seasons of rain."
- "It was one of those streaky days you often find at the end of a Kerry winter, with little spurts of cold rain and puffs of chilling wind and now and then glimpses of weak sunshine."
Etymology
From streak + -y.