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skyrockety

adj

Etymology

From skyrocket + -y.

  1. derived from *rukkô✻ — “a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”
  2. derived from *rokkō✻
  3. derived from rocko — “spinning wheel”
  4. derived from rocchetta
  5. formed as skyrocket — “sky + rocket”
  6. suffixed as skyrockety — “skyrocket + y”

Definitions

  1. Suddenly surging or spiking upward.

    • […] and his brilliancy of the unstable, skyrockety sort that peters out in talk and scribbling.
    • Do you realize the skyrockety nature of your progress, young man? Lord! You take my breath.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for skyrockety. 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