skullish
adjEtymology From skull + -ish.
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Characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.
- Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion.2002, Cathy Buburuz, Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre, page 27: