Hallowe'eny

See also: Halloweeny

English

Alternative forms

• Halloweeny

Etymology

Hallowe'en +‎ -y

Adjective

Hallowe'eny (comparative Hallowe'enier, superlative Hallowe'eniest)

1. Evocative of Hallowe'en; creepy, spooky.
   • 1913, Mormon Church, The Children's Friend:

     The barn was dim and shadowy in the dusk of the October evening — "very Hallowe'eny," as Max said.

   • 1973, Robert Greer Cohn, The Poetry of Rimbaud:

     Thus, as in Villon's "Ballade des pendus," the joy here is largely necrophilic and adolescent-spooky or Hallowe'eny.