razory
adjEtymology From razor + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of a razor.
- The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind,1856, Walt Whitman, “Night Poem”, in Leaves of Grass, page 293:
- They swore as they parted with the skin of their finger-tips on the keen-edged razory shale.1905, S. R. Crockett, chapter 44, in The Cherry Ribband,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 338:
3 more examples
- This is what I want: I want to lie on the razory brain-shaped rocks of Baja.1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 173:
- Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss.1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 21, page 62:
- Shortly after her arrival Amie ventured away from the sandy, palm-lined coast to explore the inland territory. The beach front surrendered suddenly to a razory cluster of peaks.2009, David A. Ross, Calico Pennants: