Adjective: lizardy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lizardy |
| Superlative | most lizardy |
Sample Sentences
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“It’s a lizardy sort of Beast,” I explained. “Charlotte says it’s a dragon, but she doesn’t really know much about beasts.” [1898, Kenneth Grahame, “The Reluctant Dragon”, in Dream Days, London: The Bodley Head, page 153:]
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Now he began to move his tongue between his dry lips in little lizardy motions, [1955, Patrick White, chapter 12, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 171:]
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I demand to know where that funny winged lizardy creature came from — and where it went! America wants to know! [2005, Gregory Maguire, Elaine Clayton, One Final Firecracker:]
Adjectives inflected like lizardy
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From lizard + -y.