spooneristically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a spooneristic manner.
Example Sentences
- "People are not, and do not want to be, wholly grasshoppers or wholly ants, but a combination of the two; people are and want to be (if you will forgive a regrettably vulgar but spooneristically inevitable construction) ass-hoppers or grants. We can, of course, all cease to work, but if we do then we cannot play for long either, for we will shortly die.'"
- "Ultimately, the fanciful but probably untrue witch and crap etymologies should simply be allowed to spooneristically flutter by."
- "Among horses that have run here, and in other counties, are the gelding (obviously) Noble Locks, Roger the Butler, Shiitake. Titsan, My Aunt Fanny and Katchit. Amazingly, famous trainer Julie Cecil had a horse spooneristically named Mary Hinge which won five races, picking up over £25,000 in prize money."
Etymology
From spooneristic + -ally.