Dictionary

razory en · ADJ

Etymology

From razor + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a razor.
   • This is what I want: I want to lie on the razory brain-shaped rocks of Baja. 1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 173:
   • Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss. 1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 21, page 62:
   • Shortly after her arrival Amie ventured away from the sandy, palm-lined coast to explore the inland territory. The beach front surrendered suddenly to a razory cluster of peaks. 2009, David A. Ross, Calico Pennants:
   • They swore as they parted with the skin of their finger-tips on the keen-edged razory shale. 1905, S. R. Crockett, chapter 44, in The Cherry Ribband,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 338:
   • The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind, 1856, Walt Whitman, “Night Poem”, in Leaves of Grass, page 293:

Forms

Synonyms

cutting · sharp