Hogwartsy

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectiveHogwartsy (comparative Hogwartsier or more Hogwartsy, superlative Hogwartsiest or most Hogwartsy)

comparative Hogwartsier · comparative more Hogwartsy · superlative Hogwartsiest · superlative most Hogwartsy

  1. Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

    There, around the entire block that encircles the museum (a gothic Hogwartsy thing in the center), streets are closed off and clogged with them.

    2014, Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things, Razorbill, →ISBN, page 141
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    the train line from Perth to Inverness goes past a string of lochs and a couple of forest parks: Tay and Glencoe. there is a castle in this area - Blair Castle, but it's not very Hogwartsy.

    2003 April 4, The Dude, “The lake.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet)

    Zoe led me up an endless Hogwartsy staircase by the light of her many-candled candlestick, passing glass cases full of china dolls with scratchy faces and toys from the olden days and butterflies pinned to boards, all covered in cobwebs.

    2013, C.J. Skuse, Dead Romantic, Frome: The Chicken House, →ISBN, page 64

    Despite the myth that Harry Potter was almost filmed in the Law Quad, Michigan’s Hogwartsiest feature remains the six miles of steam tunnel that run beneath campus.

    2013, Matt Pollock, “The top 10 things you didn't do but totally should have done in college”, in The Black Sheep, page 6

    Radcliffe’s take on an extroverted Newark Jew isn’t so un-Hogwartsy that Ginsberg himself ever comes to mind, but that would be distracting, wouldn’t it?

    2013 November 22–28, Michael Atkinson, “film*guide”, in OC Weekly, volume 19, number 13, page 33, column 3

    And the campus! Just leaving the foyer made my ears pop and there was no chance I was ever finding my way round this mad maze of staircases, Hogwartsy nooks and crannies and never-ending corridors.

    2016, Rachel McIntyre, The #1 Rule for Girls, Electric Monkey, →ISBN, pages 16–17

    Synonyms: Hogwarts-esque, Hogwartsian

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveResembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

Origin

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