Kelpy in a sentence as a noun

"Dubliners there was the unlovable A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which starts well, charting bold, clear routes, like “Araby,” through the trackless waters of childhood, then fouls its rotors in a dense kelpy snarl of cathected horniness, late-Victorian aesthetics, and the Jesuitical cleverness that, even in Ulysses, wearies the most true-hearted lover of Joyce.

Kelpy definitions

noun

(Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders

See also: kelpie