scalpy

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English

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Etymology

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From scalp +‎ -y.

Adjective

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scalpy (comparative more scalpy, superlative most scalpy)

  1. Of or relating to scalps.
    • 1837, E. D. Kennicott, Zethe: and other poems:
      Across his back a stringless bow, / And emptied quiver swung, — / And in his sinewy hand, he bore / His scalpy trophies — red with gore.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      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.
    • 2008, Ray Robinson, The Man Without, page 314:
      The synaesthetic mix of her deep smile, the scalpy chemical pong of the salon.
    • 2013, Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In, page 396:
      I could smell his scalpy hair smell. see the way he used to sit with his knees together and his toes pointed in.