ladettishness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Although television can deal brilliantly with such figures in documentary form, its current tone is anti-introvert. Loudness, gregariousness, lad- and ladettishness are imperative. You must be larky, joshy, noisy, especially if you are young."
- "[…] there is emerging evidence, too, that issues of ladettishness are impacting upon an increasing number of girls."
- "The impact of the culture of laddishness (Yates 1997; Francis 2000; Warrington et al., 2000) and more recently of ‘ladettishness’ (Jackson 2006), as some boys and some girls develop defensive behaviours, such as the rejection of academic work and disengaged behaviour to minimise the risk of academic failure."
- "Chris Moyles (love him or loathe him, you've got to loathe him) is on hand for laddishness, Stacey Solomon for ladettishness."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English ladde English lad Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ettebor. Middle English -ette English -ette English ladette Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English ladettish Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English ladettishness From ladettish + -ness.