scaffoldy
English
Adjective
scaffoldy (comparative more scaffoldy, superlative most scaffoldy)
- (informal) Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.
- 1882, Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest, Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters ..., Issue 13:
- "The result has rather a scaffoldy and incomplete appearance, which would be happily remedied by the coloring brush and a few shadings, easily thrown in, but the measurements are correct, and the proportions and the relations of the several of the several buildings to one another, are accurately represented."
- (informal, figurative) Resembling a scaffold.
- 1965, {unattributed}, The Prairie Schooner - Volume 25 - Page 90
- "Evan pushed the twist of hair off his forehead and regarded the shadow. It was long and straight and lean and scaffoldy, like a cross on a spire."
- 1965, {unattributed}, The Prairie Schooner - Volume 25 - Page 90
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