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UK
/splˈɪntəɹi/
]
[ US /ˈspɫɪntɝi/ ]
[ US /ˈspɫɪntɝi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
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resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
a rough splintery floor of old pine boards
How To Use splintery In A Sentence
- Rite, an — I swattid him rite when — when teh clok struk wun, an he runned down, hikery — I meen ripperty splintery dok, he tored teh papur. If u mad now… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- Her skin and hair were dry and uncared for, but her eyes had the glittery, splintery look of shattered mirrors. BARN BLIND
- Then Nick's arms came around her and they were off across the splintery wooden floor. THE WHITE DOVE
- The true cinchona barks, containing quinine, quinidine, and cinchonine, are distinguished from the false by their splintery-fibrous texture, the latter being pre-eminently corky. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
- Inside the floors are splintery and rusty fans clank noisily above our heads.
- a rough splintery floor of old pine boards
- Two ill-glued legs fell off it, and the rest crumpled to splintery matchwood. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
- At the near end of the pond was a splintery wooden dock.
- Rite, an — I swattid him rite when — when teh clok struk wun, an he runned down, hikery — I meen ripperty splintery dok, he tored teh papur. If u mad now… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- All three versions combine the joy of dry, splintery pastry with the joy of chewy, indigestible glop.