Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underdoggy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-dog-gy
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of an underdog.

Informal

Example Sentences

"MEN AT WORK […] There was something underdoggy about the name as well that I quite liked. It kind of always struck me as coming up from underneath or something."
"The bar is low, so it’s actually a relief when a zombified Ye does his best impression of his own past music: He’s a little underdoggy, a little indignant, a little meditative, drifting in Auto-Tune and rapping over an array of top-shelf samples."

Etymology

From underdog + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: underdog

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more underdoggy (comparative) most underdoggy (superlative)

Synonyms

underdoggish

Questions

What does underdoggy mean?: Characteristic of an underdog.
Where does underdoggy come from?: From underdog + -y.

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