Meaning of crayfishy | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of crayfish.

Examples

““I’ll see⟳ if I can find⟳ a helgramite,” Nicky said. “No fish⟳ can refuse⟳ that.” / Laner laughed. “It sounds tough.” / “It’s a small crayfishy-looking creature. You wouldn’t like⟳ it.””

“The wind was advertising the river’s smell⟳ – damp, raw and crayfishy.”

“We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like⟳ the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there.”

“Evil little crayfishy aliens inhabit teachers’ bodies at a run-down high school in this clever variation on the body-snatchers theme.”

“Seafood you never heard of, like⟳ barramundi, shark lips, and Balmain bugs (not the designer, but a crayfishy crustacean) also is popular, since about 99 percent of the population lives on the coast.”

“I remember⟳ the crayfishy smell⟳ of the creek under the one-lane bridge, near where foxes ran: this was where I found, anchored by its shaft in the sandy mud of the creek bank, a red-tailed feather leaning in the breeze.”

“[T]hey all sat down to a light⟳, working luncheon of Pret A Manger and Evian. None of this was a problem – though he certainly favoured his normal pilchard over the crayfishy things that Angela had arranged.”

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