cat's-eyed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Furnished with cat's eyes (reflective road markers).
adj
Resembling the gemstone cat's eye; chatoyant.
Example Sentences
- "And in those quarters, who knows, there may be, lurking behind a paper screen, some affected cat's-eyed little woman, whom perhaps in two or three days (having no time to lose) I shall marry!!"
- "A long-muscled, cat's-eyed, electric dancer from Argentina."
- "Soon he was out on the coast road, a broad highway through the sand-dunes which he knew from his morning's drive had an excellent surface and was well cat's-eyed on the bends."
- "It is cat's-eyed ſometimes, like the Labrador ſtone, but the colours have not the ſame brilliancy or intenſity[.]"
- "Shortly after making the turn, his lookouts reported a destroyer bearing NE by E. Ralph Talbot actually was out there but (according to her log) she must have been a good ten miles away — too far to be seen, even by a cat’s-eyed Japanese lookout."