How do you write that an object that is shaped like a jelly bean?
1. Jelly bean shaped;
2. Jellybean-shaped;
3. Jelly bean-shaped;
4. Jelly-bean-shaped.
1. Jelly bean shaped;
2. Jellybean-shaped;
3. Jelly bean-shaped;
4. Jelly-bean-shaped.
Jelly bean-shaped?
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Most of the places I trust are still treating jelly beans as a two-word confection. Assuming you agree, it would be jelly bean-shaped or the shape of a jelly bean.
Maryn, assuming you've seen her in a bathing suit
Maryn, assuming you've seen her in a bathing suit
Not all possibilities to be sure, but all three of my dictionaries indicate jelly bean is two words and don't show a hypenated form, so choices 2 and 4 are eliminated for me.
I would write, "The jelly bean-shaped craft hovered low" in order to make the adjective a unit.
But I would write, "All bullets extracted turned out jelly bean shaped" when "shaped" is an object.
Yes, I'm ready for those ideas to be ripped and shredded.
Why bother with the word 'jelly' -after all isn't a jelly bean simply a jelly shaped like a bean?
'Bean-shaped' is what you are trying to say -no? If not, I would suggest finding another way of describing whatever you are trying to describe, rather than fickering with a jelly bean.
'Bean-shaped' is what you are trying to say -no? If not, I would suggest finding another way of describing whatever you are trying to describe, rather than fickering with a jelly bean.
Agreed, but mostly I'd rephrase.
The kidney-shaped craft hovered low.
The hovering craft had the shape of a jelly bean.
The hovering craft had the shape of a jelly bean.
One old bean to another
Rephrasing is always an option, and often the better option, but the teacher in my always wants to answer the question asked rather than deflect it.
To answer another comment, none of my jelly beans are bean-shaped. I've been scammed!
Rephrasing is always an option, and often the better option, but the teacher in my always wants to answer the question asked rather than deflect it.
To answer another comment, none of my jelly beans are bean-shaped. I've been scammed!
To refer to something as a 'jelly bean-shaped' object is daft unless it's both made of jelly and shaped like a bean. Provided the reader knows what sort of shape the bean is!
Sometimes the person asking the question simply hasn't thought it through enough. If they had, perhaps the question would never have arisen.
Just a thought.
Sometimes the person asking the question simply hasn't thought it through enough. If they had, perhaps the question would never have arisen.
Just a thought.
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Two technical scientific words for it are "phaseolate" and "reniform".
I don't think I'd ever use either in a piece of creative writing. William Faulkner might have.
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I don't think I'd ever use either in a piece of creative writing. William Faulkner might have.
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I accept your challenge, blacbird.
scarletpeaches, who has used the word 'cruciform' more than once.
scarletpeaches, who has used the word 'cruciform' more than once.
I once invented the word "ursiform" to describe a large, hulking human being. I'll let you translate.
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Hmmm
Jimi Hendrix + too much acid + Roget's Thesaurus = the surprisingly rocking song, 'Vulpiform Gentlewoman'...
To be as contrary as the rest, bedpan-shaped.
That is until I saw the latest his, hers, and its contraptions hospitals now use for piss-pots.
I respectfully disagree. Presuming the phrase here comes from a work of fiction, the choice of adjective characterizes the POV character.
Consider an object that is jelly-bean-shaped.
Consider an object that is bean-shaped.
Consider an object that is kidney-shaped.
Consider an object that is reniform.
These four statements give exactly the same information about the object, but much different information about the POV character.
Be not so silly.
Oblong is completely different. Unless you squeeze it in the middle and bend it a bit so it becomes kidney-bean-shaped.
Oblong is completely different. Unless you squeeze it in the middle and bend it a bit so it becomes kidney-bean-shaped.
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