skullish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From skull +‎ -ish.

Adjective[edit]

skullish (comparative more skullish, superlative most skullish)

  1. Characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.
    • 2002, Cathy Buburuz, Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre, page 27:
      Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion.
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