elbowy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Awkward; especially, involving the awkward protrusion of the elbows. (of a person’s movement)
Example Sentences
- "1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Society Leader” in Black Beetles in Amber, San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Company, p. 85, Doubtless it gratifies you to observe Elbowy girls and adipose mamas All looking adoration as you swerve This way and that;"
- "Flora, rather freckly, elbowy, and far too tall, was none the less about to be pretty."
- "Where I was big, elbowy and grating, he was small, graceful and smooth."
- "He is a tall man with shaggy hair and bad teeth, in a suit too big for his sharp, elbowy frame."
- "[…] I was noticing how very elbowy his gestures were […]"
- "She squirted in some liquid soap with an elbowy throwing motion."
Etymology
From elbow + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more elbowy (comparative)
most elbowy (superlative)