different between vampirey vs monstery

English

Etymology

From vampire +? -y.

Adjective

vampirey (comparative more vampirey, superlative most vampirey)

1. (informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of vampires.
   • 2006, Deborah Wilson Overstreet, Not Your Mother's Vampire: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction, Scarecrow Press ?ISBN, page 44

     Even though virtually every character in the novel, besides Cody, is a vampire, Vampire High is not at all a vampirey novel. Rees's vampires are born as vampires who marry and produce little vampires. Justin explains that they no longer kill for ...

   • 2009, Charlaine Harris, Living Dead In Dallas: A True Blood Novel, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     I'd gotten fed up before, tired of the vampirey stuff I had to learn to accommodate, frightened of getting in deeper. Sometimes, I just wanted to see humans for a while. So for over three weeks, that was what I did. I didn't call Bill; he didn't call me.

   • 2010, Tim Collins, Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire: Because the Undead Have Feelings Too!, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN

     (Too vampirey.) Yield to the forbidden music of my soul. (Way too vampirey.) Dear Chloe, please can I sink my teeth into your neck and drink your blood? (One step at a time, Nigel.)

   • 2013, Arthur Conan Doyle, Vampire Stories, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ?ISBN

     “Last week,” he says, “I sent 'The Winning Shot' to Temple Bar—a very ghastly Animal Magnetism vampirey sort of tale. It came back again but with a very complimentary letter, & Hogg says he should like to see it.”

Hypernyms

• monstery

Derived terms

English

Etymology

monster +? -y

Adjective

monstery (comparative more monstery, superlative most monstery)

1. (informal) Resembling a monster.

Synonyms

• monsterlike

Hyponyms

• vampirey

Anagrams

• storymen