Hallowe'eny
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See also: Halloweeny
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hallowe'en + -y.
Adjective
[edit]Hallowe'eny (comparative Hallowe'enier, superlative Hallowe'eniest)
- Evocative of Hallowe'en; creepy, spooky.
- 1913, Mormon Church, The Children's Friend:
- The barn was dim and shadowy in the dusk of the October evening — "very Hallowe'eny," as Max said.
- 1973, Robert Greer Cohn, The Poetry of Rimbaud:
- Thus, as in Villon's "Ballade des pendus," the joy here is largely necrophilic and adolescent-spooky or Hallowe'eny.