Meaning of crocodiley | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of a crocodile.
   informal
2. Of a body of water: inhabited by or typical of crocodiles.
   informal

Examples

““Incongruous, but there you are,” Finlay added, giving Norma one of his crocodile smiles which had become even more crocodiley since he’d acquired an eye patch.”

“You, as Chuck, have to fight your way through myriad levels of baddies – dinosaurs, spiders and weird kind of little red… erm… squidgy things and other small units that suddenly become big crocodiley units.”

“His crocodiley mouth seemed to smile at her, and one of the red eyes winked as if he knew what she was thinking. […] Sidri turned his glowing red eyes towards her and started to nod his head, but his big crocodiley jaws slowly opened wide and the nodding stopped. […] Look at him . . . with his crocodiley head and monkey body and frog’s legs. […] Sidri’s crocodiley face blushed pink with pleasure.”

“A gorgeous story about companionship between a small crocodiley creature and a dad crocodiley creature.”

“My most interesting sighting is a bleach-blonde mother with a bleach-blonde daughter. They’re almost identical, dressed in matching blue jeans and lace tops. Only the mother’s skin gives her away. It’s wrinkly and crocodiley, especially around her eyes and neck, as if she’s been left out in the sun to dry. Kind of like a sun-dried tomato.”

“It does not look human, although it is humaniform. It has huge, sharp, carnivorous teeth in a wide mouth, reptile eyes, grayish-crocodiley skin.”

“How can she open her eyes on him first thing in the morning? He has unattractive, crocodiley skin, eyes like fried eggs and garlands of spare tyres round his fat neck.”

“‘Our production is going to be much more faithful to the book.’ / ‘Are there any purple crocodiles in the book?’ / ‘Oh, we blagged that from a production of Robinson Crusoe at the Bristol Hippodrome,’ Grace explained. ‘Dad’s renovating it for us and giving it a fresh coat of paint so it looks a bit more, you know …’ / ‘Crocodiley?’ suggested Holly. / ‘Yeah, crocodiley. It has remote-control snapping jaws … if Dad can get them working again.’”

““The evolution of birds was a complete mystery. People thought that birds probably didn’t evolve from dinosaurs. Maybe their ancestors were some nonspecific crocodiley thing, back in the Triassic”.”

““Perhaps it’s my accent?” said the Crocodile, as he and the Tiger were watching football on TV. “I have this terrible crocodiley way of speaking. Perhaps it’s putting employers off?” […] “Then it’s my accent?” said the Crocodile sadly. “I know it’s too crocodiley.””

“‘Er, Darren, we’re trying to do our TV show?’ I said, all shaking out of anger. / ‘What’s it called? Loseroid City?’ he said, and everyone laughed again including Bunky, which I couldn’t believe because it was so unfunny. / ‘No, it’s called Darren’s Face is All Crocodiley and He’s Fat from Too Many Fronkles,’ I shouted back.”

“Possum Fishy, tough, crocodiley chicken”

““And that’s what we were doing when you went to bed!” cackled Mr Odd, holding up a rusty old saw with one crocodiley hand and pointing a crocodiley finger at them with the other. “Sawing through the legs of your chairs!””

“I went in for this remembering that I had been informed that there were very nasty crocodiles on the island, and that I had got to get past the mouth of that largest river—as crocodiley-looking a spot as you could wish for, if you had a gun.”

“We had to swim three separate channels of the river, each of considerable depth, but so narrow that a couple of strokes landed us on the other side; but they looked so “crocodiley”!”

“This they found very similar in appearance to the swamp at the end of the creek—a pool or two of stagnant water surrounded by beds of giant reeds and water-plants and a few willowy trees. / Dick viewed it with suspicion. ‘It looks rather crocodiley,’ he remarked. ‘I’m not going poking about in those reeds, I can [t]ell you; I have seen one old gentleman at close quarters, and that’s enough—“his bright smile haun[t]s me still.”’”

“We passed many canoes, the paddlers balancing desperately against our wash, fearful lest their keel-less log craft should overbalance, and tip yams, sago, wife and babies into the crocodiley stream.”

“We watched the rising tide and the slow approach of the opposite bank with some anxiety for the quiet part of the river we were crossing looked very “crocodiley”!”

“We cross the Mara River at the Karume Ferry. It is a broad, deep, crocodiley and hippopotamusy-looking stream.”

“She encouraged the image, making herself the butt of frequent jokes and delighting in the incongruity of a button-booted spinster paddling up a crocodiley river with only a naked cannibal for company, or wading through mangrove swamps to emerge with a ruff of leeches about the neck like an astrakhan collar.”

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