yewtree
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Operation Yewtree
verb
To investigate historic sexual offences as part of Operation Yewtree, or otherwise reveal or allege someone (especially a celebrity active in the 1970s and 1980s) to be a paedophile or abuser.
British usage; Slang
adj
A paedophile, specifically one revealed by Operation Yewtree or a similar investigation.
British usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Having been born in the late 80s, I remember Saturday night TV through a child’s eyes. Unfortunately, most of the people who were on it have now either died, been Yewtreed, or gone nuts."
- "Anyway, this is the last Yewtreed edition of the show until we get to Christmas, when both end-of-year specials are scuppered by their hosts, which is a bit inconvenient."
- "There was a brief return to Dubai after an Operation Yewtreeing that came to nothing, but Jim’s next gig of any note was the 2014 series of Celebrity Big Brother."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
Yewtrees (present, singular)
Yewtreeing (participle, present)
Yewtreed (participle, past)
Yewtreed (past)
more Yewtree (comparative)
most Yewtree (superlative)