flapperesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).
Example Sentences
- "Ms. Haskell also goes over the autobiographical correspondences between Margaret Mitchell and her two creations, Scarlett and Melanie, contrasting the author’s tomboy childhood and flapperesque youth with the ladylike gentility she assumed later in life; her fierce determination to become a writer and her fear of the social backlash the publication of her novel might set off."
Etymology
From flapper + -esque.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more flapperesque (comparative)
most flapperesque (superlative)