porkishly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ingenious men, spreading themselves most porkishly to retain a whole seat, when people are passing and re-passing to find a resting place."
- "But did he move them to behave as he wanted them to behave--reasonably, decently, or at least a little less porkishly than usual?"
- "He had grown swollen around the face and porkishly rotund in the midriff, and she noticed that those perfect fingers which, describing their gentle arabesques, had so mysteriously aroused her six years before seemed like rubbery little wurstlike stubs as he adjusted upon his head the gray Homburg that Scheffler obsequiously handed him."
Etymology
From porkish + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more porkishly (comparative)
most porkishly (superlative)