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Poltergeist vs Poltergeisty - What's the difference?

poltergeist | poltergeisty |

As a noun poltergeist

is poltergeist.

As an adjective poltergeisty is

(informal) resembling or characteristic of a poltergeist.

poltergeist

English

(wikipedia poltergeist)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
    • a poltergeist haunts the house by moving objects around the house, make chain-rattling noises and throwing items.
    the chapel is haunted by a demonic poltergeist .

    Derived terms

    * poltergeistic * poltergeistism

    Synonyms

    * See also

    poltergeisty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a poltergeist.
  • * 1972 , Thomas N. Scortia, Strange bedfellows: sex and science fiction
    • 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.
  • * 1999 , Alice Alfonsi, Eternal Sea
    • 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
  • * 2008 , Malcolm Antony Nelson, 20 West: the great road across America (page 32)
    • At another time, in another place, this might have been dismissed as hysteria, nonsense, fraud, self-delusion, or just poltergeisty adolescent hormonal surges.