hemlocky
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "10 is bad in the south line, and 9 also is cold and hemlocky."
- "The friends of Mr. Fillmore erected a hemlock pole at Evans on Friday last and hung their flag at half-mast. All right—a sign of distress is exceedingly appropriate for that party. Several speakers were present, we understand, and the style of oratory, was, in its argument and positions, quite as hemlocky as the pole, and as distressed as the flag at half-mast."
- "The next section extending from the 18th mile to Mr. Bell’s line, the land on the east side of the line is the same as the last section, but on the west side, the the^([sic]) land is more hilly, stony and hemlocky."
- "The rest of the farm is either low and flat, or piny or hemlocky, or something else."
- "E. G. R. [The Rev. E. Gillett of Runham] in Notes and Queries, iii., Series 1, p. 236, thinks this “Bunkey” or Hemlocky Hill."
- "From June till October I cruised and camped, mildly, on the upper waters of the Susquehanna, getting such benefit as I might from out-door life in a piny, hemlocky region."
Etymology
From hemlock + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more hemlocky (comparative)
most hemlocky (superlative)