slashy
/ˈslæʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
adj
adj
of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
Example Sentences
- "Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one."
- "Blade Warriors the game reviewed today is the first Onimusha game to come with a play style of its own It is a slashy fighting game with clanging swords"
- "It was written by a fellow named Hans S. Tommerholt, and I apologize to you all, but there's actually a slashy thing through the first "o" in his last name,"
- "Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships"
- "The grounds were slashy, there being a heavy shower in the afternoon. Play with barefoot was difficult."
- "Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus."
Etymology
From slash + -y.