Sharpie
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sharpie¹
- /ˈʃɑɹpi/ US
- /ˈʃɑːpi/ UK
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)pi
Where it comes from
From sharp + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
noun sharpies
- An alert person. Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance, selling magazines?" Daisy grinned childishly, enjoying Eunice's mistake. "You're quite a sharpie, aren't you, ma'am? You figured me out a whole lot faster than most people do."
- A knowledgeable fisherman. 1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best, Field & Stream, page 78, Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie. In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market
- A swindler. Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.
- A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters. He brought this pair of sharpies, the Lucia and the Ella, to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.
- Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.sharp-shinned hawk It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies, but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.
- Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.sharp-tailed sandpiper The bird looked of a similar character to a knot/pec sandpiper/sharpie, but the exact size was difficult to judge[.]
- A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s. The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie hang-out.[…]Sharpies were all deep drinkers.
- A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
Sharpie²
- /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pi/ UK
- /ˈʃɑɹpi/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)pi
Where it comes from
From sharp + -ie.
proper noun
- A brand of pointed permanent markers used primarily for labeling items in boldface, signing autographs, etc.
noun Sharpies
- A permanent marker of the above brand.
