humpie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A humpback salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha.
Example Sentences
- "There was a lot of snagging at first, of humpies too tired to resist, of deadfall trailing limbs in the water, but after a while Gregor caught and by a miracle landed a two-pound rainbow and everyone began fishing in earnest."
- "Humpies travel in schools on or near the surface, so the dorsal fin can be easily spotted."
- "The once-unthinkable to Hank became his concentrated project for the next several days: to hone his deckwise wife to the mysteries of spotting and capturing humpie salmon from the viewpoint of the wheelhouse."