tinfoily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of tinfoil.
Example Sentences
- "It tinkles. As it skitters along the ground, it makes a tinny, tinfoily little noise as its edges scrape along the concrete."
- "The walls were festooned with silver and white tinfoily stuff, and on every table stood a tall slim vase, spilling over with sprayed silver flowers."
- "“There’s a tinfoily blanket thing, a prescription bottle full of something. Pain pills?”"
- "By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a twitchy, tinfoily mess."
Etymology
From tinfoil + -y.
Usage
Inflected Forms
tinfoilier (comparative)
tinfoiliest (superlative)