scalpy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Across his back a stringless bow, / And emptied quiver swung, — / And in his sinewy hand, he bore / His scalpy trophies — red with gore."
- "He scored exactly once, with a young hippie from Oregon who had ketchup stains on her chemise and a scalpy smell so overpowering that he spent much of the night breathing through his mouth."
- "The synaesthetic mix of her deep smile, the scalpy chemical pong of the salon."
- "I could smell his scalpy hair smell. see the way he used to sit with his knees together and his toes pointed in."
Etymology
From scalp + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more scalpy (comparative)
most scalpy (superlative)