Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maddery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mad-dery
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or similar to the deep reddish colour of madder (dye).

Example Sentences

"1873, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Sunset,” Diary entry dated 3 November, 1873, in The Dublin Review, July, August, September, 1920, p. 64, A few minutes later the brightness over; one great dull rope coiling overhead sidelong from the sunset, its dewlaps and bellyings painted with a maddery campion-colour that seemed to stoop and drop like sopped cake;"
"As we watched the resting greylags a biggish skein came beating up over the mountains, and for a quarter of an hour we watched them circling a dark maddery moss on the opposite shore, as though they were looking for a place to feed."

Inflected Forms

more maddery (comparative) most maddery (superlative)

Questions

What does maddery mean?: Of or similar to the deep reddish colour of madder (dye).

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