Shrekky

English

Etymology

From Shrek +‎ -y.

Adjective

Shrekky (comparative more Shrekky, superlative most Shrekky)

1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of the fictional ogre character Shrek.
   • 2007, Lynn Ziegler, Spongeheadz: U & MEdia, Bothell, Wash.: Book Publishers Network, →ISBN, page 107:

     Shrek cereal consists of sweetened corn puffs with marshmallow pieces, and it contains fourteen grams of sugar in every serving. “Kids just see that it’s Shrek,” Harkin says. See what a month of Shrekky breakfasts adds up to in terms of sugar intake: healthy eating advocates recommend taking a five-pound bag of sugar and actually measuring out a day’s worth, a week’s worth, and a month’s worth of sugar from breakfast alone. Truly monstrous!

   • 2008 January 26, Susie Boyt, “With trousers come responsibilities”, in Financial Times, London, page 7:

     "At least I have my lucky trousers. Oh no, they're waving at me, shouting at me and one of them is standing up and calling out something. I can't quite make out what he's saying ... " The line goes silent. […] I begin telling her that her Shrek-look is the pinnacle of next season's much-hyped international rugged ogre chic but the words sort of die on my lips. […] This time the greetings are unmistakable. I hear it plainly down the phone: "Hi Shrek! Hello Shrek! Oy Shrek!" […] "I should take them back, maybe, shouldn't I?" I imagine the little slip on the returns form that says "reason garment unsuitable" filled in: way too Shrekky.

   • 2009 November 1, Camilla Long, “Come join me in the doghouse: Vince Cable was the sage of the credit crunch but these days his calls are as often wrong as right, writes Camilla Long”, in The Sunday Times, London, page 5:

     "We have a very good relationship," he insists. "We talk frequently. I'm not sitting waiting to take over, competing for his office." So no Brown-Blair shenanigans? "Ha ha," he laughs, exposing two Shrekky front teeth. "No, I haven't got Brown's temper."

   • 2011, Richard Hawkey, “Sowing the Seeds”, in Life Less Lived: A Passage Through Burnout and Depression In the Suburbs, : Xlibris, →ISBN, part two (The Experience), page 59:

     It started with me catching myself shouting at the kids more and more, for no real reason. I am a great supporter of the ‘gently, gently’ school of child rearing, but don’t discount the value of an occasional attention-focusing slap on the bum when they run into a car park or completely ignore you and jump off the back of the couch for the third time—head first on to tiles. But I was now becoming something of an ogre, and not the cute Shrekky or Wayne Rooney type.

   • 2011 February 13, Camilla Long, “Playboy meets girl”, in The Sunday Times‎, London, archived from the original on 8 December 2022, page 16:

     For years, the Playboy Mansion has been little more than a porno Disney where the original playboy picks Playmates, and charges for entry Next door, the screening room lies quiet and sticky with drink — or is it drool? In the Shrekky Great Hall, where he still theatrically descends every day about noon, soft toys gather lint.

   • 2013 November 24, “Photo to put end to eating disgust”, in The Examiner, Launceston, Tas., page C.4:

     My wife insists on talking while eating porridge in the morning. The glutinous oats cling to her mouth. I can't tell her this disgusts me. Help! / G.A., Doncaster, VIC / (Not my real initials, as I am such a coward!) / Great, now I've got this image in my head of a huge, Shrekky troll-wife, hunched over a bubbling trough of gruel, scooping it into her scungy mouth using her webbed, reptilian hand as a spoon, and you being too scared to say anything in case she drags you off to her cave lair and dashes your brains out on her jagged, husband-killing rock.