Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cardboard-boxy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables: card-board--boxy
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a cardboard box.

Example Sentences

"On the nose there is some maturity but the wine lacks a bit of grace and charm. There is something dry, pinched and cardboard-boxy about it."
"[…] here where I must cope with a world only as cruel / as the people, themselves cruelly exploited / in this cardboard-boxy housing many would give / an eye-tooth for […]"
"Is there anything I can do to get my 319 to sound better? I remember reading about someone placing felt type material inside the mic but is there anything else I can do? It does seem to have this cardboard-boxy kinda sound to it."

Etymology

From cardboard box + -y.

Inflected Forms

more cardboard-boxy (comparative) most cardboard-boxy (superlative)

Questions

What does cardboard-boxy mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a cardboard box.
Where does cardboard-boxy come from?: From cardboard box + -y.

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