Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

person from porlock

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables
per-son- from -por-lock
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.

Etymology

In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.

Inflected Forms

persons from Porlock (plural) people from Porlock (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

porlock Porlockian

Synonyms

man from Porlock

Questions

What does person from porlock mean?
One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.
Where does person from porlock come from?
In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.

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