miss austenish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "How Miss Austenish it sounded: the managing rector’s wife, her still more managing old maid of a sister, the neighbouring clergyman who played the flute, the local doctor, and a pretty daughter just out—[…]"
- "Her cousin has all the odds in his favor, except that she is not in love with him; but then she is so sensible and so Miss-Austenish that that seems a small obstacle."
- "If this were a little more clever, it would be Miss Austenish."
- "We have again, most happily, Mr. Tarkington’s Miss Austenish eye, which, figuratively speaking, sees in the occasion of a bad egg for breakfast the inception of a divorce."
- "Excellent inn, the George, plainly the best in Lichfield, and staffed with good, kindly people. What an immense difference civility in an inn does make. The George, we noticed, has a grand Assembly room. Very Miss Austen-ish."
- "It [Commonplace by Christina Rossetti] was very much ‘in the Miss Austen-ish vein’ as Christina’s brother [Dante] Gabriel [Rossetti] remarked, and indeed boasts a disastrous picnic and a garrulous chaperone in Miss Drum to rival Emma’s Miss Bates, while the maiden ladies of Mrs Gaskell’s Cranford (1853) also come to mind."
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Inflected Forms
more Miss Austenish (comparative)
most Miss Austenish (superlative)