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Shipwrecks vs Shipwrecky - What's the difference?

shipwrecks | shipwrecky |

As a noun shipwrecks

is .

As an adjective shipwrecky is

characteristic of a shipwreck.

shipwrecks

English

Noun

(head)

    • shipwrecky

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of a shipwreck.
  • * 1896 , Elizabeth Westyn Timlow, Cricket at the Seashore , Estes and Lauriat (1896), Chapter VI:
    • "I was only joking. We've escaped from a burning vessel, you know, and every one else is either burned or drowned. We've provisions for a month, if we don't eat too much, and we're in the South Sea Islands. South Sea Islands sound nice and shipwrecky , don't you think so?"
  • (figurative) Weak, feeble; shaky.
  • * 2007 , , Around Africa on My Bicycle , Jonathan Ball Publishers (2007), ISBN 9781868422470, page 301:
    • So there I was, standing by the roadside in pitch darkness with my belongings and shipwrecky knees.

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