Adjective: shiply
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | shiplier |
| Superlative | shipliest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more shiply |
| Superlative | most shiply |
Sample Sentences
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But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs. [1942, Harold S. Ingham, Fire and water:]
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There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades. [1953, William Sansom, Pleasures strange and simple:]
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They anchored at the island, which they had named Bear Island, for several days while they worked on their ship; repairing sails and doing shiply things of which Jacob still had little inkling. [2012, Stuart Wilson, Ice Haven:]
Adjectives inflected like shiply
snubby,
snithy,
snorty,
snoopy,
sainty,
screwy,
scowly,
schizy,
smacky,
slimsy,
slanty,
slaggy,
songly,
soothy,
shysty,
shiply,
skeezy,
beastly,
yearny,
whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English *schipli, from Old English sciplīċ (“naval, relating to a fleet”), equivalent to ship + -ly. Compare shiplike.