cornstarched
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
With cornstarch.
Example Sentences
- "Marshmallows: Soak two tablespoons gelatine in six tablespoons cold water. Boil until stringy two cups granulated sugar and six tablespoons hot water, add gelatine, and beat about twenty minutes. Pour out on a cornstarched platter."
- "But strange to say it is not the really creditable acting that is longest remembered by the players or audience, but the unexpected incidents which come up without warning. The false beard which falls off just as the player is trying to be most impressive; the pseudo forest which collapses at a sudden gust of wind or the cornstarched locks which lose half their whiteness when Malvolio shakes his head in a fit of dramatic rage."
- "As one corpse dangles from a noose, last scene, cornstarched cocaine snowing down, near rolling, his phone rings, his wife has just given birth, and the crew gathers around the killed man, applauding again and again, the juxtaposition, the miracle."
Etymology
From cornstarch + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more cornstarched (comparative)
most cornstarched (superlative)