sewery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a sewer.
Example Sentences
- "I will only add here one word of advice to my readers: never tolerate a sewery smell in any part of your house: you know not to what it may lead."
- "Also how he saw a “brooke,” which was doubtless in his time a pretty little river, but which is now a sewery looking stream that tries to atone for its shallowness and narrowness by its thickness."
- "The litter-strewn mud when the tide was out somehow offended them much less than the sewery water when it was up."
- "Once King James risked the crown on a voyage beneath the sewery river."
- "He woke outside on the grass, on his stomach, his nostrils filled with an acid, sewery smell, and something was on top of him, crushing him, being lifted off for a second, then crushing him again."
- "“These aren’t sewer-pipes, anyway,” Stan said from behind them. “You can tell by that smell. It’s bad, but it’s not a sewery smell.”"
Etymology
From sewer + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sewery (comparative)
most sewery (superlative)