shocky

English

Etymology

shock +‎ -y

Adjective

shocky (comparative more shocky, superlative most shocky)

1. In a state of shock; suffering from shock.
   • 1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 204:

     Shock! She's going to get shocky!

   • 2009, Catherine Coulter, TailSpin, →ISBN, page 171:

     One young girl, who looked pale and shocky, was wandering around the first floor, pausing to pick up a fallen book and trying to reshelve it.

   • 2011, John Birmingham, After America, →ISBN, page 81:

     Might be a bit shocky. Does wonders for the shocky types a cup of tea does.

2. Characteristic of or pertaining to a shock wave.
   • 2002, Ed Engle, Splitting Cane: Conversations with Bamboo Rodmakers, →ISBN, page 194:

     It can get “shocky” on the Clark if you don't watch it, but is quite smooth on the Howells.

   • 2003, Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz, Herman Francis Mark, Encyclopedia of polymer science and technology, →ISBN, page 89:

     This "shocky" peel is related to the increased stiffening and glass-like behavior of the adhesive at increasing peel rate.

   • 2012, S.C. Bhargava -, Electrical Measuring Instruments and Measurements, →ISBN, page 710:

     In this study, it was assumed that the explosive is of a shocky type (i.e. with very high detonation velocity) and delivers most of its energy in the form of stress wave.

   • 2013, G.L. Geernaert, W.J. Plant, Surface Waves and Fluxes: Volume II — Remote Sensing, →ISBN, page 146:

     Small shocky structures can be created on the surface of a basin of water by blowing at it obliquely with a household fan.