shuddery

comparative more shuddery · superlative most shuddery

1. Characterized by shuddering motions.

   The baby breathes in sharply and then lets out a long, shuddery sigh. I've been holding her for nearly half an hour and suddenly she feels unbearably heavy.

   2009, Jacqueline Davies, Lost, page 23

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   Four women dance together, shuffling their feet, arching over one another's bodies and running across the stage before stopping dead with shuddery little recoils of the chest.

   2007 December 8, Roslyn Sulcas, “Strings, Hip-Hop and Not a Little Randiness”, in New York Times

2. Causing one to shudder; horrifying.

   It is rather shuddery, however, to speculate on the terrible assortment of cutting, gouging, jabbing and slashing weapons with which the mutineers are able to equip themselves from the carpenter's shop.

   1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV

plural Shudderies

1. archaicArchaic form of Shudra.