wood-wife
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of female wood spirit.
Example Sentences
- "Like the Wild Huntsman, the devil on Ash Wesdnesday hunts the wood-wives."
- "The Vicentina Germans worship a wood-wife, chiefly between Christmas and Twelfthday: the women spin flax from the distaff, and throw it in the fire to propitiate her."
- "In Germany the Wood Wives or Moss People take the place of the Scandinavian Wood Elves."