Shameworthy vs Shakeworthy - What's the difference?
shameworthy | shakeworthy |
Worthy of shame; shameful.
*2000 , Liz Sayce, From psychiatric patient to citizen :
*2009 , Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes :
(of hands, rare) Worthy to be shaken.
*1977 , Ashok Mitra, Calcutta Diary - Page 62 :
As adjectives the difference between shameworthy and shakeworthy
is that shameworthy is worthy of shame; shameful while shakeworthy is (of hands|rare) worthy to be shaken.shameworthy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is still filled with the notion that users are blameworthy, shameworthy , to be invalidated and avoided.
- [...] use of homophobic pejoratives will most certainly continue to compromise the psychological health of young homosexual and bisexual people by insidiously constructing their sexuality as something wrong, dangerous or shameworthy .
shakeworthy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The polemics are forgotten for the narrow space of half an hour at the airport, they all queue up in quest of Fidel's eminently shakeworthy hand: it is big and strong and supple.