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English
Etymology
From shiver + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
shivery (comparative shiverier, superlative shiveriest)
- Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
The cold night made me all shivery.
1878 June, R J, “The Man Himself—His House, and Tools”, in The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC, page 2:Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.
- (archaic) Easily broken; brittle, flaky.
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