Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Easily falling into shivers or small fragments; not firmly cohering; brittle.
- Pertaining to or resembling a shiver or shivering; characterized by a shivering motion: as, a shivery undulation.
- Inclined or disposed to shiver.
- Causing shivering; chill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tremulous; shivering.
- adjective Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Given to
shivering ; tending toshiver . - adjective Easily broken;
brittle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective provoking fear terror
- adjective cold enough to cause shivers
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Examples
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The musicians had been softly playing some "shivery" music.
Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer Vance Barnum
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It gave them a "shivery" sort of feeling, and they were glad to cuddle down in their warm beds.
The Bobbsey Twins at Home Laura Lee Hope
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Max was not up in matters pertaining to ghosts in general, and could only make a guess at emitting the proper kind of sound; but really it did seem quite "shivery," even to the boy responsible for making it.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island Lawrence J. Leslie
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He sure did like music, especially them Spanish songs what made a fella kind of shivery and sad-like from his boots up.
Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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Here is a new series of mystery stories for girls by an author who knows the kind of stories every girl wants to read -- mystery of the "shivery" sort, adventure that makes the nerves tingle, clever "detecting" and a new lovable heroine, Judy Bolton, whom all girls will take to their hearts at once.
Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902
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You know, it makes me feel kind of shivery, even though I know that they won't do anything to us when they do catch us, Jack. "
The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods Robert Maitland
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I should not like to be a blade of grass on your land, she concluded, with a little shivery shudder.
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In the shivery gray of mountain dawn, Stubener was routed from his blankets by old Pat.
Chapter II 2010
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A shivery gray fellow named Hyppo, the Hypothermic Hippopotamus (see below), who sips whiskey from a flask and angrily fires wool socks into the crowd.
Little-Known Facts About the Twins Jason Gay 2010
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Alongside works by Pablo Neruda and Ko Un are poems drawn from Estonian, Hebrew, Catalan, Swedish Eeva-Liisa Manner's shivery "The trees are bare. . ." in which "Autumn / leads its fog-horses to the river", all of them unknown, all demanding further investigation.
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