catch-coldy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Prone to catching colds or particularly susceptible to illness during cold weather.
Colloquial; Dated
Example Sentences
- ""I am different. I am not a catch-coldy person, and I have a thicker mop of hair," said Lady Matilda frankly. "Besides which, I don't know that you ever saw me sitting out of doors in a sharp frost with a bare head.""
- "Cricket on the whole has been interesting to watch, and the grounds are hard and fast, but the northerly direction of the wind has made it catch-coldy work in the pavilion. We are still expecting summer."
- "Have you taken plenty of camphor pillules? Because Russia in this transition month is very catch-coldy. I hope you've remembered goloshes ?"
- "Yes, though I had known him since I was a child, and he was grey then, I supposed him not more than seventy at the very most, delicate and catch-coldy because of his foreign birth."
Etymology
From catch cold + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more catch-coldy (comparative)
most catch-coldy (superlative)