quiversome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by quivering.
Example Sentences
- "A stroke had paralyzed her and twisted her face so that her lips did not meet evenly, making her kisses quiversome and unpleasant on my cheek."
- "She turned towards the door, leaving Mr Sweetley face to face with that bustle, more quiversome than ever."
- "Ig would have lived in the trough tub, but her lips went blue and quiversome after only a few minutes in even tepid water."
Etymology
From quiver + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more quiversome (comparative)
most quiversome (superlative)
quiver-some (alternative)