fishsauce
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I ordered some Madeira,—mine host himself vanished—I had scarcely compounded the fishsauce, before, like Aladdin’s genius, he stood again before me, holding in his hand a bottle of the wished-for wine."
- "You want me and my men, pepper, and cayenne, and anchovies, and fishsauce, etc., etc., to rule over you. […] “Three cheers for mustard!” cried the fishsauce."
- "I heard mamma tell Sophy herself this morning to write for some fishsauce, because she said that Polysyllable was so fanciful about his dinner."
- "The picture of their life that follows suggests in a few words a country kitchen—the sizzling of fish over the charcoal fire, fanned by the bellows to a hot flame, the mixing up of a Thasian sauce for the fish, the kneading of dough. (The fishsauce—liparampuka—is a parody of Pindar’s ‘with shiny fillet’, Nemean VII, 22)."
- "In 1921 Yntrencherado moved to Gigantes Island off the northeast coast of Panay where he worked as a fishsauce (ginamos) merchant and had another series of visions: […]"
- "Fishsauce Factories Assn. [Samut Sakhon, Thailand]"