one-up-womanship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "In the lounge, Lorenson was at a desk in the corner looking over his notes, and suppressing a smile at this bit of one-up-manship (or even worse, one-up-womanship) over Brewster."
- "Judith's self-irony easily beats Quincy's attempts at one-up-womanship."
- "This natural one-up-womanship manifests itself in many ways and at many levels in the workplace and needs to be understood by the leader so attentions can be equitably distributed to ensure a greater level of harmony."