shippiness
English
Noun
shippiness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being a ship or like a ship.
- 1972, John Malcolm Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic, page 454:
- Highly polished rosewood, ebony and brass; a main saloon with walls "pierced by rows of high, narrow, round-headed windows, outlined with rims of polished brass," gave the Bremen a marine look, a "shippiness" that ran directly counter to the cozy house-in-the-country look of British ships and the vacuously empty hotel-lobby atmosphere of the American liners.
- 1978, Country Life, volume 164, page 312:
- The Fairways Trawler, however, reflects the same "shippiness" in her appearance and sports a wheelhouse which would not disgrace a real trawler.
- 2003, Libby Purves, Casting Off, unnumbered page:
- Oh, this boat, this familiar boat! She felt a surge of love for it, for its compact practicality, its orderly shippiness, its dutiful precision, its homely solid shelter against the storm.
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- (fandom slang) The state or quality of being shippy.
- 1997 February 11, KSJ, “Momento Spoilers”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
- My first thought as a shipper, and even the list admin of the XF Romantics mailing list which is dedicated to shippers, is to crow about the "shippiness" in this episode.
- 1999 March 10, Michael P. Walsh, “Re: Arcadia ratings”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
- I don't believe "shippiness" either helps or hurts the X-Files ratings.
- 2000 December 20, Jane, “Re: Doggoneit Be Gone”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
- One could theorize that shippiness can 'ruin' an episode because it takes some people's focus away from the main story even if it doesn't alter the main story.
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