sharpie
/ˈʃɑɹpi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
Example Sentences
- "Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance, selling magazines?" Daisy grinned childishly, enjoying Eunice's mistake. "You're quite a sharpie, aren't you, ma'am? You figured me out a whole lot faster than most people do.""
- "You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years."
- "1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best, Field & Stream, page 78, Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie. In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement."
- "Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money."
- "He brought this pair of sharpies, the Lucia and the Ella, to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner."
- "On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies. The earliest sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʃɑɹpi/
- British English: /ˈʃɑːpi/
Usage
- Colloquial
- American usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage