chokily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“It is almost mocking me to talk about my help, you who are so much more influential,” she answered, rather chokily."
- "Then Alice said, speaking chokily because she had not quite done crying: “Let’s wave a flag.”"
- "“I haven’t one thing that belonged to my mother,” said Anne, chokily. “I—I can never thank you enough for these letters.”"
- "She swallowed chokily with a dry throat, but she turned her head away and gazed indifferently into the fire."
Etymology
From chokey + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more chokily (comparative)
most chokily (superlative)