Shell-like
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Shell-like is an adjective meaning Having a similar shape to a seashell.
Meaning
Having a similar shape to a seashell.
More Meanings
- (literary, dated) Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell.
- (slang, British, Australia, especially in set phrases) The ear.
Example Sentences
Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?
"Nay, speak not so hastily; consider well the point; take me feature by feature, forgetting not my form, and my hands and feet, and my hair, and the whiteness of my skin, and then tell me truly, hast thou ever known a woman who in aught, ay, in one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an eyelash even, or the modelling of a shell-like ear, is justified to hold a light before my loveliness?"
Word Forms
- shelllike
- shell-likes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shelllike, shelly, sheetlike, sheathlike, sheet-like, clamlike.
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