growlery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of Growlery.
noun
A place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured.
Example Sentences
- "I dare say you have never heard of a growlery. It's a funny word, but it is a very useful, helpful sort of a place."
- "Tussy wrote to Lizzy, knowing that Engels would read her the letters in his growlery – as he described his study-sitting room – presided over by the stuffed Right Honourable in his glass case."
- "'Bearing up, I suppose, Teddy said, although I didn't actually see her. We're at war then? 'I'm afraid so. Come into the growlery, Ted, and have a drink with me."
- ""Sit down, my dear," said Mr. Jarndyce. "This, you must know, is the Growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here.""
- "Hi ! the Howlery ! ho ! the Growlery ! Ha ! the Sniffery, Snarlery, Scowlery ! There we may stay, If we choose, all day; But it 's only a smile that can bring us away."
- "As such, the Growlery again frustrates what Doublass sees as a peculiarly American obsession with pigeonholing things in terms of race."
Etymology
From growl + -ery.