scalp
/skælp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction."
- "The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down."
- "Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle."
- "They carried the dripping scalps of his companions, and one had skinned off Baptiste's black beard as well, for a trophy."
- "The most disturbing thing about Disneyland is seeing all those smiling people walking around wearing Mickey Mouse's severed scalp."
- "He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chevron invected gules, between two bugle-horns sable, stringed of the second in chief, and the attires of a stag affixed to the scalp in base of the third, two fasces chevronways or."
Etymology
From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scalp
Usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Transitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.