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shuddery

adj

Etymology

From shudder + -y.

  1. derived from *skewdʰ-✻
  2. derived from *skudjaną✻
  3. derived from schodderen
  4. derived from schudderen
  5. inherited from schoderen
  6. suffixed as shuddery — “shudder + y”

Definitions

  1. Characterized by shuddering motions.

    • Four women dance together, shuffling their feet, arching over one another's bodies and running across the stage before stopping dead with shuddery little recoils of the chest.
    • The baby breathes in sharply and then lets out a long, shuddery sigh. I've been holding her for nearly half an hour and suddenly she feels unbearably heavy.

  2. Causing one to shudder

    Causing one to shudder; horrifying.

    • It is rather shuddery, however, to speculate on the terrible assortment of cutting, gouging, jabbing and slashing weapons with which the mutineers are able to equip themselves from the carpenter's shop.

  3. Archaic form of Shudra.

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