thrilly

English

Etymology

thrill +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪli

Adjective

thrilly (comparative thrillier, superlative thrilliest)

1. exciting, producing a thrill.
   • 1970, Germaine Greer, The Politics Of Female Sexuality:

     To know it is to feel it, the clitoris so complicated and so clever, as thrilly as a high-tension wire. In its nest within a nest like the word within a word. The bud in its calyx in the vales where the big lips cleave away from the slopes of the Mount of Venus. This is carnal knowledge.

   • 1995, Timothy Leary, High Priest:

     ...I saw his eyes inside the mask smiling at me and right there at that moment everything became okay, exultant new world vision, a new thrilly freedom down down down in the blue glass light world.

   • 2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me:

     Thrilly jolts of ecstasy electrified his junkie loins. His fancy-prancy equine stride took him a half block down the ghetto street into the dingy foyer of a tenement building.