crayfishy
adjEtymology From crayfish + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of crayfish.
- “I’ll see if I can find a helgramite,” Nicky said. “No fish can refuse that.” / Laner laughed. “It sounds tough.” / “It’s a small crayfishy-looking creature. You wouldn’t like it.”1950, T[homas] Morris Longstreth, chapter 5, in Showdown, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 111:
- The wind was advertising the river’s smell – damp, raw and crayfishy.1970, C[yril] Everard Palmer, “Epilogue”, in The Sun Salutes You, London: Andre Deutsch, →ISBN, page 143:
4 more examples
- We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there.1986 May, Diane Carey, chapter 2, in Dreadnought! (A Star Trek® Novel; 29), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23:
- Evil little crayfishy aliens inhabit teachers’ bodies at a run-down high school in this clever variation on the body-snatchers theme.1999 January 7, Jane Horwitz, “[The Family Filmgoer: David vs. Goliath in court] ‘The Faculty’ (R, 1 hour, 42 minutes)”, in The Buffalo News, Buffalo, N.Y., page D-2, column 1:
- Seafood you never heard of, like barramundi, shark lips, and Balmain bugs (not the designer, but a crayfishy crustacean) also is popular, since about 99 percent of the population lives on the coast.2000 September 17, Karen Mamone, “cooking with attitude: Cake from Down Under”, in Northeast (Hartford Courant), Hartford, Conn., page 14:
- I remember the crayfishy smell of the creek under the one-lane bridge, near where foxes ran: this was where I found, anchored by its shaft in the sandy mud of the creek bank, a red-tailed feather leaning in the breeze.2005, Lisa Couturier, “Off Being God”, in The Hopes of Snakes and Other Tales from the Urban Landscape, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 12: