poltergeisty

comparative more poltergeisty · superlative most poltergeisty

1. informalResembling or characteristic of a poltergeist.

   I do my little poltergeisty numbers. I stack and restack my textbooks without leaving my bed. I move my shirt from the floor to the back of the chair.

   1972, Thomas N. Scortia, Strange bedfellows: sex and science fiction

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   He should be moving the covered furniture, or knocking down dusty paintings, jostling the ragged rug or rapping on stained walls — all of the usual poltergeisty endeavors[…]

   1999, Alice Alfonsi, Eternal Sea

   At another time, in another place, this might have been dismissed as hysteria, nonsense, fraud, self-delusion, or just poltergeisty adolescent hormonal surges.

   2008, Malcolm Antony Nelson, 20 West: the great road across America, page 32