jed clampett
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Zayed may not have been the "Jed Clampett of the Middle East," as Americans staying at some of his new four-star hotels used to joke. But he was a financial ingenue with a newly minted horde of money, a horde that got much, much bigger after the Arab oil em-bargo. He was like Jed Clampett in that he went immediately for the big house in Beverly Hills and the swimming pool, and that he was simply not aware that most of the people who showed up on his doorstep were fortune seekers, and quite often dishonest fortune seek-ers."
- ""What's sad," said the bicycle rep, "is that he's the prize of the bunch. He's the Jed Clampett of this menagerie.""
- "Newly rich, the city was the Jed Clampett of urbanism."
- ""My car is the one that each time the door opens, some piece of garbage goes flying out. It drives me crazy. I feel like the Jed Clampett of car owners." —Jenny"
- "While the sound of country music had become more sophisticated, the key change the magazine cited for country's resurgence as a programming choice was "the awareness by broadcasters that their country music audience isn't limited to hayseeds, Okies, rubes, or Jed Clampetts." The magazine listed the healthy economic characteristics of the country listener along with a list of sponsors that included airlines and Cadillac dealers."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Jed Clampetts (plural)