leprechaunesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, like, or proclivous to befit a leprechaun; small; mischievous; lucky.
Example Sentences
- "He was dressed in a green velvet suit— a fashion statement, I thought, that veered very close to the leprechaunesque. He tasted my sauce and made a few adjustments to the seasonings to great effect."
- "Jim bounded in leprechaunesque leaps between the two men, and with a clap of his hands and a nod of his head he scooped up some of the liquid viewfinder from the cave floor and cast it at the face of the strange man who claimed to be their Wizard."
- "If Euclidean space were presumed on this judgement, as Russel's claim that the space is objective and real implies, the distant golfer would be judged leprechaunesque . But judgment presumes relative size constancy for postulated objects, and attributes radical size differences to distance, directly, without inference."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: leprechaun
- Suffix: -esque
Inflected Forms
more leprechaunesque (comparative)
most leprechaunesque (superlative)