Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dinner-jacketed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables: din-ner--jack-et-ed
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Wearing or having a dinner jacket.

Example Sentences

"The English among the other sex, black-tied, dinner-jacketed, are men of the bench and bar, court officials, soldiers, wanderers from Pall Mall and Piccadilly who have come to Homburg to while away the month their favorite club is closed."
"He led the way through the main entrance and marched right up to the immaculate, smug, dinner-jacketed man who was leaning in front of the desk."
"Rainbow, a five-man dinner-jacketed outfit from Chell, won the first heat of the Midland Top Group Competition at the Penny Farthing Club last week."
"But to return to the clipped tones of the Fifties dinner-jacketed BBC would be absurd today."

Etymology

From dinner jacket + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: dinner jacket

Questions

What does dinner-jacketed mean?: Wearing or having a dinner jacket.
Where does dinner-jacketed come from?: From dinner jacket + -ed.

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