throat-deep
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I see that you are a man of the book, that volume of which Mother in her grace turns over a fresh page each spring. Though your skin is as pale as the flesh of my palm, though you have but one wife, though you speak throat-deep and strangely, yet you and I are more alike than different."
- "It was a thrill that curled through his body, responding both to his heightened erotic senses and to his emotional exultation, driving his thrust deeper into her willingness, and wresting from her throat deep animal sounds that rose steadily in pitch, building, giving, taking, rejoicing, approaching..."
- "His cutthroat authority — never more than throat-deep."
Inflected Forms
more throat-deep (comparative)
most throat-deep (superlative)