light fantastic
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.62 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An officer told the Water Police Magistrate to-day how some few nights ago he had seen Williams giving an exhibition more daring than conventional, and keeping time to the dancing of her "light fantastic" with language that "struck him all of a heap.""
- "The Upper Four Hundred sternly setting its face against anything pertaining to the frivolous; and insisting that while there is serious work to be done there must be no light fantastic, but a truce to the pomp and shows of Vanity Fair."
- "Weather permitting Ragtime Rastus will dance a light fantastic, and Jefferies will once more swap punches with Johnstone in a 20-round contest at 7.30 to-night."
- "With well-known compere, Gordon White, at the helm, the evening soon was in full swing, as dancers stepped the light fantastic to the music of Arthur Ruggles' orchestra, and were kept moving all night."
- "He suddenly started off into a variety of light fantastic flights and jiggetty jiggetty jumps."
- "Unseen she skipped into the Equity Court yesterday, a light fantastic figure, who brightened the dry legal proceedings by standing on her head."