Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

to the tonsils

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English

Syllables: to the -ton-sils
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Entirely, completely, extremely, to the greatest degree.

Informal

Example Sentences

"He was stuffed to the tonsils with cream crackers."
"They sat there, robed up to the tonsils, and made me feel so below a juvenile delinquent."
"And who could say how soon, if I continued to be always at his side, Wilbert Cream would get it up his nose and start attacking me with tooth and claw? Already his manner was that of a man whom the society of Bertram Wooster had fed to the tonsils, and one more sight of the latter at his elbow might quite easily make him decide to take prompt steps through the proper channels."

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

up to the tonsils (alternative)

Synonyms

all the way from soup to nuts in excelsis to the backbone to the bone to the brim to the core to the fullest to the full to the gills to the gunnels to the hilt

Questions

What does to the tonsils mean?: Entirely, completely, extremely, to the greatest degree.

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