eyethurl
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A kidcote is a special name for a prison. Some kidcotes don’t even have an eyethurl. What is an eyethurl? An eyethurl is a window such as the one through which the lovely Rapunzel let down her crinets. […] Note: For dretching the curly crineted child with a fearbabe, the killbuck was sent to a kidcote without an eyethurl. […] The hardhewer graffed for stone for a knosp / For the door to his cosh, upsy-English with burl; / He theeked it with thatch and stood back to aimcry, / Then shrieked, “Juvament! Hadivist! No eyethurl!”"
- "Hark! What light through yonder eyethurl breaks."
- "I was watching the sunset through our eyethurl when I heard strange slurping noises just a wurp away."
- "There he saw a bellibone sticking her head out of an eyethurl and crying. […] He threw the rope up to the eyethurl."
- "Glancing out the eyethurl of her modest cosh, she saw a blue scrow—a good sign for a new day."
- "Beware of eyethurls that rob home of cooling and heating energy"
Etymology
Revived from Old English ēagþyrel (possibly for puristic reasons). Popularized by Susan Kelz Sperling’s 1977 book Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words (See quotation). By surface analysis, eye + thurl (“hole”).