spockery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A good deal of the practical advice is medical—how to detect the symptoms of tuberculosis, how to diagnose a pregnancy, foods to avoid during pregnancy (crabs, or the child will come out sideways etc.), lucky directions in which a pregnant woman should contrive to face on various days of the zodiac, charms to secure an easy delivery, herbs to improve the flow of milk, hints on the care of infants, remedies for warts and bed-wetting and other kinds of Spockery."
- "1966, Insight and Outlook The causes of student unrest, both here and in Europe, have been probed by many; critics bewail, and rightly so, the effects of a generation of permissiveness and Spockery."
Etymology
From Spock + -ery.