splintery

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
adjective resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points

From splinter + -y.

“Twenty-four hours and he'll be in the cooler!” Finally Gavegan managed to get a flame from one of those irritatingly splintery Swedish matches made in Japan. — Children of the Whirlwind, Leroy Scott
With unskilled hands he swept--leaving snags of dirt in the corners; he washed--breaking a dish now and then; he even got down on protesting sore knees and sloshed around in an attempt at scrubbing the knotty, splintery floor. — The Innocents: A Story for Lovers, Sinclair Lewis
Before them and to the right and left rose a vast maze of ragged, splintery peaks and huge ramparts of mountain-walls enclosing plains so far below their summits that the light of neither sun nor earth ever reached them. — A Honeymoon in Space, George Chetwynd Griffith

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