rolex
/ˈɹəʊlɛks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A luxury wristwatch produced by the brand Rolex SA.
Example Sentences
- "He pulled up his sleeve and there on his scrawny arm hung a Rolex the size of Big Ben."
- "Rolex is a chapati roll with fried eggs stuffed in, accompanied with fresh vegetable salad."
- "All this time our rolex has always been a humble meal; a taste best savoured around suburbs by those who, if not out of time to prepare a decent meal, are out of money to do as much. […] To spice up the event, a dish of well-manicured and half-piece (half-piece!) rolexes was ushered in."
- "A welcome, if humble, addition to Kampala's edible offerings is the 'rolex'. This is nothing more (or less) than a freshly cooked chapati enhanced by a fresh omelette, chopped onions, green peppers and finely sliced cabbage."
- "An omelette fried and rolled up in a chapati (Indian flatbread), rolex is excellent food on the go, and a firm breakfast favourite on the streets of Kampala, where it's often still served in a roll or cone of newspaper."
Etymology
Coined ex nihilo by German watchmaker Hans Wilsdorf in 1908 as a trade name. Wildorf later explained: "I tried combining the letters of the alphabet in every possible way. This gave me some hundred names, but none of them felt quite right. One morning, while riding on the upper deck of a horse-drawn omnibus along Cheapside in the City of London, a genie whispered ‘Rolex’ in my ear."
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɹəʊlɛks/