Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clawsome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: claw-some
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterised or marked by having claws

Example Sentences

"I'm acutely aware that this lovely blond beast, if properly provoked, could rip my lungs out with a single swipe of clawsome paw."
"Elvis had turned his back on the Church of the Almost-Here End, sold his soul to MOR, but Jerry Lee kept pumping—Holiness! Tongues!—and with each new clawsome, wild wife, with every new midnight violence, every extravagance of face, he slid further from grace."
"It was a very clawsome hug."
"[...] he paused, leaning into the table, eyebrows raised expectantly, “claw-some.”"

Etymology

From claw + -some.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: claw

Inflected Forms

more clawsome (comparative) most clawsome (superlative) claw-some (alternative)

Questions

What does clawsome mean?: Characterised or marked by having claws
Where does clawsome come from?: From claw + -some.

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