skullish

English

Etymology

From skull +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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.