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shell-like en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From shell + -like.

Meanings

1. Having a similar shape to a seashell.
2. (dated, literary) Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell.
   • "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?" 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
more shell-like	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
shelllike		alternative	lexicographic
most shell-like	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

shell-like en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From shell + -like.

Meanings

1. (Australia, UK, especially, in set phrases, slang) The ear.
   • Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
shell-likes	Number=Plur		lexicographic
shelllike		alternative	lexicographic