anchovied
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Topped with or accompanied by anchovies.
Example Sentences
- "In about an hour and a half the talk is brought to an end; but our hospitable bursar will give us coffee and anchovied toast in his room, where the interrupted threads of conversation are resumed, and the commenced arguments are fought out."
- "Paul (Angostura) Pepe says the Jet Set has a new passion, a dance called “the Frug,” with cheese and anchovied pizzas to nibble on between flings, and plenty of Bitterspritzers."
- "[…] while Max and Madeleine float backwards and forwards from the kitchen into the yard, bringing bowls of Ritz biscuits, peanuts and anchovied eggs to accompany their drinks."
- "The bacon is real, and nicely crisp, the parmesan is freshly grated, the greens are bouncy and tossed with a well-lemoned and -anchovied dressing."
- "A dinner-plate-sized Caesar salad ($6.95), tossed with lots of creamy anchovied dressing, and exceptionally creamy homemade mozzarella ($7.95, unfortunately with wan tomatoes) were two appetizers I would have been generally pleased with in an Italian restaurant."
- "The zucchini was sliced in half and baked so that it was watery and tasteless, suffocated by a thick layer of heavily anchovied Caesar dressing and covered in a confusing chunky bread crumble, along with chives."
Etymology
From anchovy + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more anchovied (comparative)
most anchovied (superlative)