Cliffy
adj, noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A cliffhanger (dramatic stopping point in a story). slang
"All your questions won't be answered in the first book. It may end on a cliffhanger that leads into book 2. It's a mild cliffy, but it's there none the less."
- 1 Abounding in cliffs.
"1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 176. There is naked Nature,—inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray."
- 2 Characteristic of a cliff.
"HAG [...] 1. A rock or cliff; an abrupt, cliffy prominence."
Example
More examples"1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 176. There is naked Nature,—inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray."
Etymology
From cliff + -y.
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