horsefeathers
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.04 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
plural of horsefeather (singular not used)
noun
Long hair on lower legs of a draft horse (e.g., Clydesdale), especially the rear legs.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Horsefeathers! You knew it was a bad idea and now you're just making excuses about it."
- "Dismissing the rumors as "horsefeathers", he advised everybody to disregard them."
- "The most notorious of these was Templeton Rye: Said to be from Iowa, it was purportedly distilled using a Prohibition-era recipe that was a favorite of none other than Al Capone who, according to legend, called it "the good stuff." The story turned out to be such a load of horsefeathers that Templeton was found guilty of deceptive marketing, and forced by a judge to issue partial refunds to its customers."
- "The exterior of the court is entirely of sheathing and wood shingles applied over "horsefeathers.""
- "In summary, the record establishes that to produce horsefeathers one starts by sawing a log (longitudinally) into boards or planks, which are then likewise center resawn (longitudinally); that the original boards, as well as the center resawn boards, have at least two approximately parallel longitudinal sawed surfaces; that the resawn boards are simply resawn again longitudinally at an angle or bevel to produce horsefeathers; and that the only other sawing required is the crosscutting of the boards to length."
- "Feathering strips, called horsefeathers, can be used to level cedar-shingle roof before reroofing with asphalt shingles"
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
horsefeathers! (canonical)