hemingway
/ˈhɛmɪŋ.weɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.30 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.
name
A town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States.
verb
To speak, write or behave in a Hemingwayesque manner.
verb
To study, or talk about, Ernest Hemingway.
Example Sentences
- "[…] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield."
- "But there is no literary law that says thai — to set forth these beauties — the writers must first excel in the art of Hemingwaying."
- "Ivens concluded his account with a remark that out-Hemingwayed Hemingway: 'I know that money is hard to make but dying is not easy either."
- "That just-a-moment had hardly died away before Father turned and Hemingwayed Bogoljub so forcefully that the tobacconist was sent flying against the bookshelves."
- "And as it turned out, he'd Hemingwayed his so-called past. Those tales he told about backpacking the two-thousand-mile-long Appalachian Trail while fighting off bears and wolves? The time at Pismo Beach when he punched out a shark to rescue a lifeguard? The stories were interesting the first few times I heard them but they paled with the retelling."
- "After Hemingway's death in 1961, he was bombarded with questions about the author and finally asked a reporter to let it be known that he was “Hemingwayed out!”"
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.