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hatchety

adj

Etymology

From hatchet + -y.

  1. derived from *kop-✻ — “to strike, to beat”
  2. derived from *hapjǭ✻
  3. derived from *happjā✻
  4. derived from *happia✻
  5. derived from hachete
  6. inherited from hachet
  7. suffixed as hatchety — “hatchet + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a hatchet.

    • She'd been looking at him throughout his speech, at the lank height of him, the long-fingered, bony hands, the long head, rather hatchety, the deep-set gray eyes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA