biteyness

English

Etymology

From bitey +‎ -ness.

Noun

biteyness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being bitey.
    • 2012, Katie MacAlister, A Tale of Two Vampires (Dark Ones), Signet, New American Library, →ISBN, page 199:
      “Exactly how hungry are you? Should I give in to my biteyness so that you can fill up, or can it wait until we can find somewhere more private than the side of the road next to a haunted forest?”
    • 2016, David A. Carbonell, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN:
      For instance, Susie’s parents might help her to de-fuse the word “cat” from those properties of scratchiness and “biteyness” by making nonsense rhymes with the word cat, singing songs about cats, rhyming the word “cat,” making artwork based on the word “cat,” and so on.
    • 2018, Stephen Kozeniewski, The Ghoul Archipelago, French Press, →ISBN, page 222:
      Still wary of sudden biteyness, Martigan gingerly turned the man so that his left side pointed up.
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