bansheelike

comparative more bansheelike · superlative most bansheelike · alternative banshee-like

1. Resembling or characteristic of a banshee.

   ... only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell befinned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet ...

   2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (Historical Drama; Psychological Thriller; Period Horror; Black Comedy; motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United States, during the 1890s with dialogue written to reflect the time period

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   A veteran of the tough audiences on the black rhythm and blues circuit, Houston wastes no time noodling around on stage; he begins his show from the back of the club, screaming bansheelike saxophone war cries through a cordless microphone and slowly stalking through the crowd in the general direction of the bandstand.

   1988 September 16, David Whiteis, “Rock's early raunch: Joe Houston saves the wails”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016