Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of thick clumps of coarse grass or sedge. See hassock, 1, and hassock-grass.
- Of the nature of the soft calcareous sandstone which separates the beds of Kentish ragstone in England.
Examples
“They were all sprawled, posed, lounging on low benches and some hummocky hassocky things which seemed to have grown up out of the floor.”
Fictionaut: Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
“People sat in unusual pews, and a wide margin of hassocky emptiness intervened between the ceremony and the walls.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hassocky’.
-
Name, a Novel
Odd words and odder juxtapositions of words from Name, a Novel by Toadex Hobogrammathon. Some would consider these dystopic "junk phrases", and that's precisely why I like them. Full text at the Po...
corkoid Spanish m..., flock of fried an..., like a bad dram, unsuspectedly Mal..., sudatory ministerium, dice-coal praemunire, praemunire, teocalli, sclaff, labiovelar weathe..., bigeneric loss ad..., good time unrestr... and 1413 more...
-
Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hassocky.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.