octopusish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling an octopus; octopuslike.
Example Sentences
- "Plain slabs of fibreglass are unfriendly enough, but when topped off with a protrusion here and a herniation there, the whole house takes on a frighteningly octopusish effect, reminiscent of the painting of the warted, welted man you used to […]"
- "A little beer mixed with soggy tobacco or pot oozes out of one can near Ken's bare, hairy feet. He just sits there, hunched over, while air explodes in-out his mouth, and beer spreads in an octopusish pattern."
- "I always wished they would give a clear view of the Kaled mutation inside the Dalek Travel machine, they showed one hanging out of a demolished Dalek in The 5 Doctors episode, it was an octopusish thing."
- "That should be 'ikayaki'. 'Tako' = octopus. 'Ika' = squid. I think a kraken is more squiddish than octopusish."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more octopusish (comparative)
most octopusish (superlative)
Synonyms
list in octopuslike