Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

siserary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sis-er-ary
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A severe rebuke or scolding.

Obsolete

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[…] I retreated—retreated, Colonel, and without confusion or dishonour, and took post behind worthy Master Holdenough, who, with the spirit of a lion, threw himself in the way of the supposed spectre, and attacked it with such a siserary of Latin as might have scared the devil himself […]"
"1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 97, I ketched him in the very fect, coming out of the house-maid’s garret.—But I have gi’en the dirty slut a siserary."

Etymology

Corrupted from certiorari (“legal writ transferring a cause to a higher court”).

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

siseraries (plural) sassarara (alternative) siserara (alternative) sussarara (alternative)

Questions

What does siserary mean?: A severe rebuke or scolding.
Where does siserary come from?: Corrupted from certiorari (“legal writ transferring a cause to a higher court”).

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