quibbly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "considering the docility of the high-bred Arab horse and intractableness of the quibly, roughly broken prairie or Pampas horse"
- "We give notice that thousands of our most complacently puttering, most quibbly and fuddly politicians are going to be taken out by the people, lifted up by the people, and dropped kindly but firmly over the edge of the world."
- "the Quaker said, “I tell thee what, Humphry, thou art the most quibbly hand at a dispute I ever met with in my life.”"
- "The voice sounded mellow and reasonable, but the man was as quibbly and higgly a guy as you could find."
- "A remarkable performance, both piece by piece and all in all, but with items for quibbly reviewers to quibble about. This reviewer too is on the quibbly side, with four quibbles."
- "Of course, the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney General made a rather clever and—if he will excuse me for saying so—a rather quibbly defence."
Etymology
From quibble + -y.
Inflected Forms
more quibbly (comparative)
most quibbly (superlative)