quakesome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by quaking
Example Sentences
- "At street corners after dark in the West End, and up courts in the City, may be heard the hoarse cornet à piston, the quakesome flute, and eke the twanging harp, in trinity of dissonance; [...]"
- "'Ere 's me, look 'ee, trimming them borders, Sergeant, so 'appy-'earted as any bird, and all at once I falls to coldsome, quakesome shivers, my 'eart jumps into my jaws, my knees knocks an' trembles horrorsome-like, an' I sweats — ""
Etymology
From quake + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more quakesome (comparative)
most quakesome (superlative)