cliffy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cliffy
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, this is the start of what many consider the hardest part of the ride — five miles of ribbon-thin trail pasted onto the vast, cliffy, scree-littered slope of the mesa.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021
As I negotiated — not prettily, but successfully — the run’s cliffy crux, visions of the hot tub, sauna and a facial at the Four Seasons spa danced through my head.
From Washington Post
The rest of the plan calls for five additional chairlifts and three poma lifts, which will access new areas of the mountain, including a cliffy backcountry area known as La Laguna.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the sea literally at their backs, on a cliffy tongue of land, they had built their tingle wail across the root of the tongue.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
An abrupt high land, projecting almost perpendicularly into the sea, and presenting a bold front, rather rounded than cliffy in outline, as with the headland.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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