all-overish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Scrabble Score

Letters

Syllables

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Colloquial; Dated

"[H]e was uncommonly old and uncommonly ugly, and he had a pair of the most extraordinary eyes I ever saw, — they gave me a sort of all-overish feeling when I saw them glaring at me through the pigeon hole."
"The drink was beginning to tell on them; she felt quite unsteady and all-overish."

Etymology tree English all over Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English all-overish From all over + -ish.

more all-overish (comparative) most all-overish (superlative)

all-overishness all-overs

all-overs

Questions

How to pronounce all-overish

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “all-overish”.

Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.

Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “all-overish”.

Repeat and practice — Say “all-overish” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.