Skullish
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.
"Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion."
Example
More examples"Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion."
Etymology
From skull + -ish.
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