Hallowe'eny

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See also: Halloweeny

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Hallowe'en +‎ -y

Adjective[edit]

Hallowe'eny (comparative Hallowe'enier, superlative Hallowe'eniest)

  1. 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.