jeansy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What would be a lovely bank of white and pink roses just north of Mallett's are so laden with dust from the grist-mill road that the white roses look a rusty yellow, pink ones a jeansy brown."
- "And, also on State Street, Off Limits, specializing in inexpensive, jeansy clothes opened in the space over Jason’s Sandwich and Ice Cream Cafe."
- "And grey – in particular grey flannel, which in Episode Sport’s autumn collection takes on a soft yet durable, jeansy feel (with masculine overtones)."
- "I can’t remember exactly what [Colin] Firth was wearing on that first meeting: something dark and jeansy, in a sort of sixth-form teacher way."
- "Along the yellow, frozen bank, twenty-five or thirty feet high, with its narrow sloping beach to the water, a jeansy string of rustics are squatting on their haunches, absorbing all the sunshine they can, and watching the dragging operations with stolid faces."
- "And the clientele was traditional too: some jeansy young folks playing pool and the electronic game, some polyestered older folks sitting quietly along the bar or at the red-check tables in the small room next to the bar."
Etymology
From jeans + -y.