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🔫 Small pellets 🕳️ Full of holes
birdshot

birdshot

1 8.3
A surface with many small holes from shotgun pellets
  • adjective
translation icon : marcado por perdigones
  • Her jacket had a birdshot pattern from the pellets.

Examples

  • The wall was left looking birdshot, dotted with small pellets from target practice.

  • The old fence was birdshot, pockmarked with tiny holes from years of neglect.

  • The metal sign was birdshot after years of being used for target practice.

  • He wore a jacket with a birdshot pattern, full of tiny holes for ventilation.

  • The old barn door looked birdshot from all the pellets that had hit it over time.

  • The fence was birdshot with tiny holes.

  • After the storm, the roof appeared birdshot, as if it had been peppered with pellets from a shotgun.

Surface Forms

birdshot positive

Morphology

birdshot = birdshot (transparent) = bird + shot

The adjective is a direct denominal use of the noun 'birdshot', meaning 'like birdshot' or 'marked by birdshot'.

Etymology

Birdshot as an adjective comes from the marks left by birdshot pellets, so it describes something full of tiny holes or dents, as if hit by many small pellets.