mercutian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to or characteristic of Mercutio, a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1597).
Example Sentences
- "Aside from the vegetation which they were so methodically blasting, the Mercutian tetrahedra—for such Professor Hornby swore they were and such we later found them to be—had not yet come into real contact with the life of our planet, much less its master, Man."
- "He drilled in the idea of rain, until he was sure he had made his point, securing various Mercutian expressions of disgust and dislike. He found a word for “rain”—really coined one, for it did not seem to exist in Mercutian. It was a combination of “water” and “up,” so as to be quite clear, with a double-ruffle of emphasis to characterize it."
- "It includes also the ‘black-mistress’ sonnets, in which Shakespeare puts himself, as in defiance of courtly compliment to women, in intimate and sarcastic situations, and some half-dozen Mercutian indecencies, better confined to the frivolous circle of their birth or the privacy of the artist’s sketchbook."