ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Scaffoldy

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Scaffoldy is an adjective meaning (informal) Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.

Meaning

(informal) Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.

More Meanings

  1. (informal, figurative) Resembling a scaffold.

Example Sentences

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.
"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."

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scaffoldlike, girderlike, staircaselike, walllike, scaley, barnacled.

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