storyknifing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional Yup'ik play activity of young girls in which they tell stories accompanying them with illustrations scratched in the mud, sand, or snow using a storyknife or stick.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Symbols for monkey bars, swings, slides, and seesaws, which are common in the storyknifing we observed, of course, were not drawn before such articles were introduced into the culture with the building of schools and playgrounds in the villages. The use of the symbol or the word "yes" to signify the end of a storyknifing session was not used by the women in Margaret and Leota's generation."
- "Once oral stories are learned, they can be retold through storyknifing, song, and dance."
- "One of their favorite storyknifing places was under an old, abandoned, Bureau of Indian Affairs school."
- "The children of Bethel, then, come from diverse communities, brining their own storyknifing styles with them."