hooverizer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who Hooverizes.
Example Sentences
- "When we poor Americans looked at the pure, clear liquid in the tiny bowl of Japanese fashion, I imagine more than one of us wished that we were as good “Hooverizers” on the sugar question as our little yellow brothers."
- "... the simple repast was served and probably she might have said some unkind things, but it just so happened that the company were ardent “Hooverizers,” and they praised the good dinner as highly as it deserved. This set Mother to thinking."
- "It is being bought by wage earners, by ThriftStamp owners, by Hooverizers, by every man who wants real, guaranteed value in a shoe which will cost him a reasonable price."
- "These birds are no Hooverizers. They eat and they eat; then fly and fly; then eat some more."
- "... food rationing named after Herbert Hoover, the program's administrator. Hooverizers abstained from certain foods on one or two days of the week; for example, wheatless Mondays and porkless Thursdays and Saturdays."
Etymology
From Hooverize + -er.