Both Uses
scintillating
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- They brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets; tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on.†
Chpt 5
- Every year they import twenty-seven thousand scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs from their native planet and while away a happy drunken night smashing them to bits with iron mallets.†
Chpt 5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(scintillating) brilliantly lively, clever, or exciting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)