lilt
/lɪlt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Whether the bird flit here or there, O'er table lilt , or perch on chair"
- "A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, / With scraps of thunderous epic lilted out / By violet-hooded doctors."
- "He was going away quite in despair, when a little old man, who was looking on with marks of displeasure in his face, came up to him, and telling him he was his friend, and his father's friend, bade him go into the ring and call for a lilt."
- "The two works have the attractive lilt of Middle English, with all the remedies for bites of serpents and cures for eye troubles of the day."
- "Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment."
Etymology
From Middle English lilten, lulten.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lilten