pemmicanize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind."
- "For coal-tar-dyed hard candies and pemmicanized oranges I gave the jumping Methodists a visit."
- "Driver mentions (elem. 338-40) that most of the northwestern peoples ground "meat or fish" and added grease or berries, in other words, more or less pemmicanized it; which suggests they were not too fond of the mere dry powder."
- "His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier."
- "It would therefore be unjust to M. Beer, since deceased, to allow my work to be supposed a full or faithful version of his successful attempt to pemmicanize tragic interest."
- "There is no better way of achieving this desirable end than by the use of a slogan. The appeal or announcement must be "pemmicanized" into a command, a broad hint or a statement."
Etymology
From pemmican + -ize.