frictiony

comparative more frictiony · superlative most frictiony

1. Having a lot of friction (physical or figurative).

   I can hear the frictiony swish of leaf against leaf.

   2004, Michael Grant Jaffe, Whirlwind: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 106

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   Few in these hot, dim, frictiony times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money,― or so little,― they are no longer good themselves

   1896, John Muir, “The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West”, in Sierra Club Bulletin

   We nipped back along the top to the Sentinel Area, where there's the poorly protected Back Slab. It's a frictiony, walk-up thing, with a delicate finish that I wouldn't like to jump off.

   1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, Pete McDonald, page 86

   Slitterhead is not a particularly polished experience. It starts very slow, the combat always has a hint of jank, the budget limitations are very obvious. But I have to admit, this has just endeared me more to it. I love how frictiony my playthrough was, how I found the edges of the game's design and adapted to them rather than it arriving pre-adapted to me.

   2024 December 9, Jacob Geller, “11 of the Best Games From a Staggeringly Good Year of Games” (6:34 from the start), in (Please provide the book title or journal name)