scalpy

English

Etymology

scalp +‎ -y

Adjective

scalpy (comparative more scalpy, superlative most scalpy)

1. Of or relating to scalps.
   • 1837, E. D. Kennicott, Zethe: and other poems:

     Across his back a stringless bow, / And emptied quiver swung, — / And in his sinewy hand, he bore / His scalpy trophies — red with gore.

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     He scored exactly once, with a young hippie from Oregon who had ketchup stains on her chemise and a scalpy smell so overpowering that he spent much of the night breathing through his mouth.

   • 2008, Ray Robinson, The Man Without, page 314:

     The synaesthetic mix of her deep smile, the scalpy chemical pong of the salon.

   • 2013, Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In, page 396:

     I could smell his scalpy hair smell. see the way he used to sit with his knees together and his toes pointed in.