machoish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of macho-ish.
Example Sentences
- "Certainly there are other changes as well; God becomes more universal instead of being mostly a tribal god, he becomes more transcendent and doesn't guide history as actively, more of a neo-platonic philosophical entity than the machoish Lord and Judge of deutero-Isaiah, and so forth."
- "[R]etired U.S. Army Colonel Charles Beckwith (the first commander of the U.S. military’s secret “Delta” counterterrorist force and the man who lead the attempt to free U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979) testified that yes, he sometimes glanced at the personal-service ads, but no, he “didn’t pay a lot of attention” to them. “You read one of these, it sounds so machoish, it just—it didn’t make my heart beat fast so I’d go on to something else that did.”"
- "Anyway, it’s like South City, modern machoish punk that might appeal to a baseball cap, snowboarding, SUV driving type of crowd, I don’t friggin’ know…"
- "“And who am I, Sydney?” / “Ashleigh. Guitarist.” / “Derek here,” a machoish boy joined in. “Think The Sox will win?”"
Inflected Forms
more machoish (comparative)
most machoish (superlative)