Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective.... examples???

Question

thank you.

Answer 1

There's a poem by T. S. Eliot that speaks of a "maculate giraffe." "Maculate" means "spotted."

There's a poem by W. H. Auden that speaks of "whorled, unsubtle ears." "Unsubtle" is really striking.

I heard a child once say that his glass of ginger ale was "prickly." I thought that was unlikely, unexpected, and yet right.