Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dog-whistly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dog-whistly
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, relating to, or characteristic of dog-whistle politics.

Informal

Example Sentences

"But the difference between the "bimbo ad" (which was also a Republican production) and the McCain advert is that the former was explicit in its miscegenation message, whereas the latter is more, well, dog-whistly."
"The dog-whistley Make America Great Again has given us Donald J. Trump, the great white hope, undoer of all-things-Obama."
"While there are reasons to complain about fireworks—they're loud, they can hurt people and cause fires—the tenor of the collective complaint becomes racialized and dog-whistly, spiked with cries for "law and order.""

Etymology

From dog whistle + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: dog whistle

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

dog-whistlier (comparative) dog-whistliest (superlative) dogwhistly (alternative) dogwhistley (alternative) dog-whistley (alternative)

Questions

What does dog-whistly mean?: Of, relating to, or characteristic of dog-whistle politics.
Where does dog-whistly come from?: From dog whistle + -y.

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