egger-oner
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We have never invoked that article. We have never attempted to use article 33. We stand convicted before the world of having walked out on our obligations under the United Nations Charter. We signed that commitment at San Francisco. The Senate approved it, and the treaty was ratified. It calls for affirmative action on our part. It calls for affirmative action on the part of Great Britain, our "egger-oner." It calls for affirmative action on the part of the other signatories."
- "Where the actors have given a bad performance and the applause egger-oner tries to overcome the effect be artificial means is all too apparent to the man in the living room. Then, too, many agencies and sponsors judge the worth of their shows by the audience applause (via recordings) when the program is checked later. It is a poor policy."
- "He was the monitor, egger-oner or quick quasher. With a black pencil on a standard copy pad, he scribbled down the thoughts and fragments of thoughts that appealed to him as they erupted like fireworks."
Etymology
From egg on + -er.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
egger-oners (plural)