Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ungolfed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-golfed
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not familiar with, or not involved in, the sport of golf.

Colloquial

adj

On which golf is not played.

Colloquial

adj

Not having been written in short form according to the challenge of code golf.

Example Sentences

"[…] the strong light that it shed upon the well-meaning stupidity often exhibited in these modern times by the ungolfed multitude."
"When the ungolfed got word of my endeavor, they questioned my sanity. But when golfers heard about how I was spending my summer, they questioned my wife's. I was either crazy or the luckiest bastard on the planet, […]"
"The persistence of golf's image as a game with a certain cachet, even as it was spreading to hitherto ungolfed corners of Britain and, indeed, British society, presented planners with a problem […]"
"the original, ungolfed code"

Etymology

From un- + golfed.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Colloquial

Questions

What does ungolfed mean?: Not familiar with, or not involved in, the sport of golf.
Where does ungolfed come from?: From un- + golfed.

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