eyelash-curler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "In Your Face: There is nothing coy about Dave Quick’s motorized assemblages at Ovsey Gallery. With the push of a button or the turn of a handle, they come at you. Toy Christmas trees rattle and quake. Eyelash-curlers snap their metallic jaws."
- "Peter Sendall, from Newcastle, says that he and his family have far more appliances even than the 47 listed in the report, including electric eyelash-curlers for his two daughters."
- "Asked whether she [Arianna Huffington] had any remaining professional fears, Huffington responded, “I am afraid of curling my eyelashes. You know, of that thing you put on your eyelashes to curl them. I am afraid it will blind me.” […] Eyelash-curlers aside, her remaining professional fear ought to be this: Can an intellectual butterfly settle down long enough to make a substantive difference?"