offshooting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An offshoot; a diversion or branching off.
Example Sentences
- "I must be shorter; I did not mean to turn off into the mere offshootings of my story, here and there; but the dreaminess I speak of leads me sometimes; and I, as impotent then, obey the dreamy prompting."
- "At the first offshooting of the English language from its present stem, its growth and development began at once to tend toward logical simplicity […]"