hornswoggler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
Example Sentences
- "Drawing and quartering was too good for that evil little hornswoggler who had hoodwinked two deys and the entire populace of Algiers, Gimp the Greek included."
- "All day you would be hornswoggler. You would be it in every game of tag or hide-and-seek, a spectacle of selfishness, ostracized, a dream smasher, the last to be served at supper, the last, before bed, whose prayers were heard."
- "The Old Viper's an old cheater, an old hornswoggler."
Etymology
From hornswoggle + -er.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: hornswoggle
- Suffix: -er