grins and giggles
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When he had dismissed those odious women with their grins and giggles, he stepped into the seat in front, and, leaning over it, held out his hand with a manner from which all the warmth and spontaneity had departed, saying, "Ah, good evening, Mrs. Brand. How is my boy to-day?""
- "Blue pillars supported wide tin roofs over verandas laden with smiling children who met my waves with grins and giggles."
- "While functional grins and giggles belong to the "intentional" communicative weaponry of a sovereign subject, the comic situation may on occasion produce a characteristic power-reversal whereby laughter assumes mastery over its subject, reducing him or her to a gibbering wretch rolling about on the floor and clutching his or her sides."
- "He had thought that the ongoing grins and giggles were simply because he was home."