skullish

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adjective

Characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.

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Meanings

adjectiveskullish (comparative more skullish, superlative most skullish)

comparative more skullish · superlative most skullish

  1. Characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.

    Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion.

    2002, Cathy Buburuz, Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre, page 27

Origin

From skull + -ish.

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APA

skullish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skullish

MLA

“skullish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skullish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skullish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skullish.

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