wombly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of having a womb.
Example Sentences
- "In practicing couvade, the male makes himself wombly. An initiated aboriginal man made womanly by sub-incision can imitate the womb's ability to open."
- "Or is it that foetuses, and they alone, require wombly residence in order to survive?"
- "He remembers Milly's childhood fear of being deserted and the terror she experienced at the first bloody sign of womanly/wombly maturation: "Her growing pains at night […]"
- "This image extends to the divine person through the use of […] in Jeremiah 31.20 to signify God's motherly (or 'wombly') compassion for the beloved child, Ephraim."
Etymology
From womb + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more wombly (comparative)
most wombly (superlative)