battleshippy

adj

Etymology

From battleship + -y.

  1. derived from *skēyb-
  2. inherited from *skipą
  3. inherited from *skip
  4. inherited from sċip
  5. inherited from ship
  6. compounded as battleship — “battle + ship
  7. suffixed as battleshippy — “battleship + y

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.

    • She couldn't have been so battleshippy, either, and it's no wonder she had so little trouble picking a husband, though why she picked Edgar Dudley I can't imagine, unless it was because of the mica mine.
    • But if you put a carrier up as a second strike strategic potential in a nuclear all-out war, I must say that is a little battleshippy to me, or the long-range subsonic bomber so far as the future is concerned.

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