Contextualizebeta

shivery

adj
/ˈʃɪvəɹi/

Etymology

From shiver + -y.

Definitions

  1. Given to shivering

    Given to shivering; tending to shiver.

    • The cold night made me all shivery.
    • Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.

  2. Easily broken

    Easily broken; brittle, flaky.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shivery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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