Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hatchetation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hatch-eta-tion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I tell you I was strongly tempted to perform a little hatchetation on them. And cigarette smoke? Phew!"
"They'd carry on worse than Carry Nation did in all her hatchetations."
"Carry's last hatchetation"
"[…] a more confrontational shot: Carry in battle dress, threatening the photographer with hatchetation."
"Annie Diggs, a noted suffragist and nationally renowned Populist who later applauded Carry Nation's hatchetation of saloons, gave a lecture in Holton on "The Social Evil.""
"Carry Nation's hatchetation, or joint-smashing displays, helped pave the way for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment […]"

Etymology

From hatchet + -ation, coined by Carrie Nation (1846-1911) to describe her own acts of vandalism. Possibly a pun on agitation.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hatchet

Usage

Inflected Forms

hatchetations (plural)

Questions

What does hatchetation mean?: A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet.
Where does hatchetation come from?: From hatchet + -ation, coined by Carrie Nation (1846-1911) to describe her own acts of vandalism. Possibly a pun on agitation.

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