Citations:haunty

English citations of haunty

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• 2020, Tim Lockette, Atty at Law

  The haunty part comes when all the teenagers go to hell because they're not Christians.

• 2005, Ruth Manley, The Plum-Rain Scroll, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 250:

  ... ghosts, for instance. Think how much you humans enjoy ghost stories; why, you even have ghost-story-telling parties on summer evenings, so that the delicious thrills of horror will cool you […] but how does one go about being grateful for haunty ghosts? It's a bit difficult to bubble over with joy about horrible apparitions, all misshapen and bloody […]

• 2003 July 3, Michael Adams, Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186:

  haunty adj Scary 1999 Angel (WB) "Back off, polygrip! You think you're bad? All mean and haunty?" [C] [haunt vt in sense 1 + -y1 suff in sense 1]

• 2020 October 15, Zachary Michael Jack, The Haunt of Home: A Journey through America's Heartland, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 172:

  ... haunty voice in Kinsella's head whispers, “Go the distance,” which Ray interprets to mean “Drive to Chisholm, Minnesota.” In the film Ray asks the aged small-town doctor if he could make any wish what it might be, and Doc Graham replies […]