earwaxy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The fact that he was willing to stand there looking at the back of her neck, the place where her pearls were linked together with a silver clasp, the pulsing earwaxy sense of her eardrums against his fingertips, all of these ought to count for something."
- "While disassembling it to clean out all that nasty earwaxy cosmoline, I noticed the words "Schweiz Industrie-Gesellschaft, Neuhausen" engraved on the reciever.^([sic])"
- "The sounds of happy children’s shoes tramping in the street and on the sidewalks, along with their laughter and excited anticipation of freedom, planted a bitter earwaxy taste in her mouth."
- "The site found out that if you burn an ear candle outside an ear, it produces a gross orangey earwaxy goo at the bottom to make you think the candle worked and removed your earwax."
- "Two of the more common causes of intestinal obstructions in working dogs are ear tags and corn cobs. The bigger Allflex or Nu-Zee type tags must have an irresistible earwaxy, scabby flavour to them when they fall out and dogs can’t resist them."
- "The McDonald’s cheeseburger was indeed a bum sandwich in every sense of that notion: the tasteless grey disc of beef thin and flat, the cheese earwaxy, and the bread collapsed pap."
Etymology
From earwax + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more earwaxy (comparative)
most earwaxy (superlative)