shivery
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editshivery (comparative shiverier, superlative shiveriest)
- Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
- The cold night made me all shivery.
- 1878 June, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Man Himself—His House, and Tools”, in The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 2:
- Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.
- (archaic) Easily broken; brittle, flaky.
Further reading
edit- “shivery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.