befinned

English

Etymology

be- +‎ fin +‎ -ed

Adjective

befinned (not comparable)

1. Having fins.
   • 2013, David Gartman, Auto-Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design:

     The sky now belonged to the Soviets, and the befinned automobiles that promised to take consumers there seemed silly and indulgent.

   • 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):

     ... only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell befinned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet ...

Usage notes

• Used especially of vehicles, but sometimes also of fish, etc.