wham
/wæm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An attempt.
Example Sentences
- "Roger was given a violent wham by his boxing opponent."
- "Might be a good idea to have a wham at it, anyway. Stop it getting away. Knock it out so that we can have a proper look at it."
- "We heard a wham as the hammer struck the wall."
- "Wham! The truck hit the wall."
- ""Come here, kid, I got something for you." Then wham and he lit on his hands and knees beside the track. Nick rubbed his eye. There was a big bump coming up."
- "The second matador slipped, and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung onto the horn with one hand and held the other right against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the barrier and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword, but he fainted."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /wæm/
- British English: /wæm/