backblock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: upcountry, interior, hinterland"
- "I speak solely for the backblock roads, and I contend that the time has arrived when the Government should turn its attention to the metalling of these roads."
- "It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks."
- "Backblocks hardship is a very real thing, but Mary Scott expresses it somewhat too much in the Victorian ‘There′s a tear on your eye’ mode, little graves on the hillside and old servants, horses and dogs, faithful to the last."
- "The weeping man was an emancipist who had a backblock in the next valley & sometimes came over to see his cobber the shepherd, both being Roscommon men."