scandiculous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Thursday I wrote a scandiculous note to Rebecca [Barbour]."
- "Yes, she is another pretty subject for contemplation. It is perfectly scandiculous to think of how she has been with the army all the way from Ypsilanti, been right in camp all the time, doing no good (which she might if she had only kept herself in the right place, the Hospital), not even cooking for herself & the Captain."
- "I wanted to holler; but, thinks I to myself, I'm a relation of the corpse, if it is only by marriage, and I ain't goin' to spoil the solemnity of this funeral if I never sets eyes on that scandiculous hussy again!"
- "I was so glad to see him I could have hugged him. Yes, I know that sounds scandiculous and I suppose if I had tried it his toe head would have disappeared over the hills as if something worse than small pox was after him."
- ""I reckon," Judd answered with feeling and added "Goin' tew convert him, too? Obie Fugate ses that hit's scandiculous the way he carries on and Preacher Paul that he has 'a hard heart and a reprobated mind'.""
- "My mom(67) just called my baby brother(19months) scandiculous!! What a generational gap!!!"
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
more scandiculous (comparative)
most scandiculous (superlative)