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English
Etymology
From shipwreck + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
shipwrecky (comparative more shipwrecky, superlative most shipwrecky)
- Characteristic of a shipwreck.
1896, Elizabeth Westyn Timlow, “Chapter VI”, in Cricket at the Seashore, Estes and Lauriat:"I was only joking. We've escaped from a burning vessel, you know, and every one else is either burned or drowned. We've provisions for a month, if we don't eat too much, and we're in the South Sea Islands. South Sea Islands sound nice and shipwrecky, don't you think so?"
- (figurative) Weak, feeble; shaky.
1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:But down below he is not so good by any means — no spring from the loins, and feeblish, not to say shipwrecky, about the knees.
2007, Riaan Manser, Around Africa on My Bicycle, Jonathan Ball Publishers, →ISBN, page 301:So there I was, standing by the roadside in pitch darkness with my belongings and shipwrecky knees.
Quotations
Translations
characteristic of shipwreck