Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

like a whitehead

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables: like a white-head
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Alternative form of like whiteheads.

Example Sentences

"I told you a year ago that when the occasion required he ran at the enemy like a “Whitehead,” and I told you that like the rest of us, when occasion required, he ran the other way like a “Whitehead ;” but he was not like the King of France, who, with thirty thousand men marched up to the top of the hill, and then marched down again."
"Holy Smokes! I was scairt. Then the train hit a curve so fast I had to fight like a whitehead to keep her from pitchin' me out."

Inflected Forms

more like a whitehead (comparative) most like a whitehead (superlative)

Questions

What does like a whitehead mean?: Alternative form of like whiteheads.

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