horse pill
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A medicinal pill which is very large in size and is therefore difficult for a person to swallow.
Humorous
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see horse, pill: a pill for horses, sometimes a large one.
Example Sentences
- "I'm lucky enough to remember to take my horse pill, much less drop it into a glass and wait 45 minutes."
- "I do know that I feel better when I remember to take my multivitamin, iron and vitamin D supplements, and the occasional fish oil horse pill."
- "Even pro-Soviet Communists will find the Geneva accord a difficult horse pill to swallow."
- "Mac Carey, an aide to leading tax-cut crusaders in Congress, called the draft language in Reagan's radio speech "a horse pill. It's very difficult to swallow.""
- "Officials know that if this year's budget is a bitter pill to swallow, next year's will be a bitter horse pill."
- "They need to swallow that big horse pill that is the West Virginia loss, forget about it and re-focus this week."