kelpy

American  

[kel-pee] / ˈkɛl pi /

noun

• kelpies
  plural

1. kelpie.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• kelpies
  plural

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Example Sentences

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kelpy kelpies

“The Bonita is an oyster-eater’s oyster. It is savory, kelpy and very beachy,” then-general manager Cody Goodwin explained.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018

An' I wuss ye may see the neist kelpy yersel'!

From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald

We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us!

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville

Anders had heard a story something like that, only it was about a water kelpy, not a brownie.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen

"We haven't seen the kelpy, after all," said Reeves.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Dog handler Carla Shoobert said they use dogs naturally inclined to pursue the gulls, such as Australian kelpies and border collies.

From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 2022

Since most Scottish lochs, they believed, had water kelpies, why shouldn't Loch Ness have one?

From Time Magazine Archive

All around is the immemorial home of kelpies, bogles, Warlocks, White Ladies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Natives of the district have for centuries been seeing kelpies, bogies, wills-o'-the-wisp.

From Time Magazine Archive

His thoughts were all of water monsters, of giant serpents, of demons, kelpies, and sprites...

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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