Shafty

Quick meaning: Shafty is an adjective meaning (Australia, of wool) Having long and dense fibres.

Meaning

(Australia, of wool) Having long and dense fibres.

More Meanings

1. (US, dated, of a car) Powerful, cool [1950s]
2. (poultry fancy, of plumage) Having visible feather shafts.
3. (cycling, informal) A bicycle that uses a driveshaft instead of a chain to transmit power from the pedals to the wheel.
4. (vulgar, of a man) Well-endowed; having a large penis.

Example Sentences

And he drives a real shafty convertible!

That's a French Bug he cruises in. A real shafty job.

In several of the flocks there is a most perfect shafty wool, and, although strong, is full of quality.

It can, however, comb equally well the shaftiest of merinos and fine crossbreds, giving actually more intensive combing than the Noble comb

Word Forms

• shaftier
• shaftiest
• shaftie
• shafties

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