afroth
/əˈfɹɒθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Fine the horses, with flying manes and tight lithe bodies, shoulders sweating, muscles rippling, mouths afroth."
- "Like an underwater detonation, the pool was afroth with flapping and splashing."
- "The charms of a blue-eyed chestnut-haired maiden in a turquoise muslin, with a brown boa, and a brown chip hat afroth with brown feathers, could not be gainsaid."
- "[…] Ebenezer Cooke […] who […] had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point."
- "Last Saturday, the day before the Oscars, when the entire fashion world was afroth about which starlet was planning to wear what the next night, a small item in The New York Times caught our eye."
- "The weighty editorial page of The Times of London doesn't make a habit of devoting thought to the travails of pop singers, whose exploits now more than ever keep the red-top British tabloids afroth."
Etymology
From a- + froth.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a