shuddery

See also: Shuddery

English

Etymology

From shudder +‎ -y.

Adjective

shuddery (comparative more shuddery, superlative most shuddery)

  1. Characterized by shuddering motions.
    • 2007 December 8, Roslyn Sulcas, “Strings, Hip-Hop and Not a Little Randiness”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Four women dance together, shuffling their feet, arching over one another's bodies and running across the stage before stopping dead with shuddery little recoils of the chest.
    • 2009, Jacqueline Davies, Lost, page 23:
      The baby breathes in sharply and then lets out a long, shuddery sigh. I've been holding her for nearly half an hour and suddenly she feels unbearably heavy.
  2. Causing one to shudder; horrifying.
    • 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV:
      It is rather shuddery, however, to speculate on the terrible assortment of cutting, gouging, jabbing and slashing weapons with which the mutineers are able to equip themselves from the carpenter's shop.
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