Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

landladyish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: land-la-dy-ish
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Suggesting or befitting a landlady.

Example Sentences

"[…] as if someone had suddenly switched on a searchlight which filled every corner of the odd landladyish room with its aspidistra and baize cloth and the smoke and heat of the game."

Etymology

From landlady + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: landlady

Inflected Forms

more landladyish (comparative) most landladyish (superlative)

Questions

What does landladyish mean?: Suggesting or befitting a landlady.
Where does landladyish come from?: From landlady + -ish.

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