tooth-to-jowl
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Very close together
Example Sentences
- "Most Latinos don’t live tooth-to-jowl because they love each other so much. In fact, new census data (again, statistics) show that Latinos in the Pajaro Valley have some of the highest crowding problems in the state."
- "Having no safe, private sanitation facilities in areas where people are living tooth-to-jowl means going the whole day without relieving oneself and then risking exposure at night."