thrilly

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adjective

exciting, producing a thrill.

Scrabble 13

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adjectivethrilly (comparative thrillier, superlative thrilliest)

comparative thrillier · superlative thrilliest

  1. exciting, producing a thrill.

    Thrilly jolts of ecstasy electrified his junkie loins. His fancy-prancy equine stride took him a half block down the ghetto street into the dingy foyer of a tenement building.

    2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me
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    To know it is to feel it, the clitoris so complicated and so clever, as thrilly as a high-tension wire. In its nest within a nest like the word within a word. The bud in its calyx in the vales where the big lips cleave away from the slopes of the Mount of Venus. This is carnal knowledge.

    1970, Germaine Greer, The Politics Of Female Sexuality

    ...I saw his eyes inside the mask smiling at me and right there at that moment everything became okay, exultant new world vision, a new thrilly freedom down down down in the blue glass light world.

    1995, Timothy Leary, High Priest

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