Skullish

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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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