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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shivery
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite the heat of the afternoon, she felt shivery, and guessed it was delayed shock.
▪ I wasn't shivery any more.
▪ It seems he first complained of a headache and feeling shivery a couple of days ago.
▪ Reaction to the violence of her own feelings had left her shivery.
▪ The strings unfold a sequence of shivery chords, and voice and oboe briefly entwine before the singer is left in solitude.
▪ The surgeon prodded the shivery flesh, searching for the tumour that must be removed.
▪ This one was the worst so far, and it left her feeling shivery and nauseous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shivery

Shivery \Shiv"er*y\, a.

  1. Tremulous; shivering.
    --Mallet.

  2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shivery

"characterized by shaking," 1747, from shiver (v.1) + -y (2).

Wiktionary
shivery

a. 1 Given to shivering; tending to shiver. 2 Easily broken; brittle.

WordNet
shivery

  1. adj. cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather"

  2. so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shuddery]

Usage examples of "shivery".

Somewhere dark sticky water was lapping at onyx piers, and once the shivery tinkle of raucous little bells pealed out to greet the insane titter of a naked phosphorescent thing which swam into sight, scrambled ashore, and climbed up to squat leeringly on a carved golden pedestal in the background.

With a shivery rustle, a miniature snowslide fell from a branch and Ronin instinctively looked up.

Cloud imaged, a shivery, angry sort of image, and Danny took a double fistful of mane, wanting him quiet, quiet, quiet.

I first visited those parts of the West where white men and Indians frequently crossed trails with rattlesnakes, and when I had to do so myself, it was a shivery experience.

And from outside through the shivery window came the sound of fiercely propelled metal as it ground against stone, shearing into the sore calcified struts and buttresses with sadistic persistence: the house, the street, the whole city, taking it deep in the root canal.

As his epidermis dripped from the sides of his face, the cannie did a shivery, heel-drumming, horizontal dance in the gutter.

Having wiped 'em, I give him sixpence (for he was kept as short as he was long), and he laid it out in two three-penn'orths of gin-and-water, which so brisked him up, that he sang the Favourite Comic of Shivery Shakey, ain't it cold?

Having wiped 'em, I give him sixpence (for he was kept as short as he was long), and he laid it out in two three-penn'orths of gin-and-water, which so brisked him up, that he sang the Favourite Comic of Shivery Shakey, ain't it cold?

STEPPING FROM AN ice-cold shower in a shivery glow, Natalie towelled herself fast and hard at the tall antique mirror framed in pink-and-gilt curlicued wood.

The wail of the shaum and dronepipe sent shivery hackles up his spine—not Bardcraft, but close, close.

The wail of the shaum and dronepipe sent shivery hackles up his spine—not Bardcraft, but close, close.

The wail of the shaum and dronepipe sent shivery hackles up his spine.

Just watching him leaning against a wall, singing ancient folk songs in shivery minor keys, was a distinct pleasure.

The first aerobrake has deployed, detonating high overhead: I switch my peripheral nervous system back on and experience a shivery high of visceral fear.