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scalpy en · ADJ

Etymology

From scalp + -y.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to scalps.
   • Across his back a stringless bow, / And emptied quiver swung, — / And in his sinewy hand, he bore / His scalpy trophies — red with gore. 1837, E. D. Kennicott, Zethe: and other poems:
   • He scored exactly once, with a young hippie from Oregon who had ketchup stains on her chemise and a scalpy smell so overpowering that he spent much of the night breathing through his mouth. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
   • The synaesthetic mix of her deep smile, the scalpy chemical pong of the salon. 2008, Ray Robinson, The Man Without, page 314:
   • I could smell his scalpy hair smell. see the way he used to sit with his knees together and his toes pointed in. 2013, Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In, page 396:

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