shamrocky
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Related to, resembling, or covered in shamrocks; by extension, stereotypically associated with Ireland.
Example Sentences
- "Lord Zetland had hardly a single tie to Ireland, save a few relations residing there ; nor does he own an acre of its shamrocky soil."
- "Everything was green and shamrocky, like Saint Patrick's day in a Polish saloon—the spirit was there but the main business was something else and in a different nationality."
- "When I was in eighth grade, Ireland was to me a green, shamrocky, distant land that kept the United States supplied with priests and nuns."
Etymology
From shamrock + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more shamrocky (comparative)
most shamrocky (superlative)