Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beasterly

/ˈbiː.stɚ.li/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: beast-er-ly
IPA: /ˈbiː.stɚ.li/

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of the wind: cold, unpleasant, and from the east.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Yesterday I completed, with Emily's assistance (which nearly drove me mad) that packing of the great huge chest of books, boxes, etc., and she and I walked together, but it was bitter cold and ungenial, regular beasterly wind."
"The ordinary English bee is generally tolerably well-behaved, but not always so, and is occasionally perfectly furious, especially if the wind is "beasterly.""
"I'm afeard 'tis a horrid beasterly wind, father."
"The wind is easterly, The weather is beasterly."
"Landsmen can seldom tell you the direction of the wind, unless it happens to be easterly and beasterly, neither is it any longer a matter of vital importance to seamen."

Etymology

Blend of beastly + easterly.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈbiː.stɚ.li/
British English: /ˈbiː.stə.li/

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more beasterly (comparative) most beasterly (superlative)

Questions

How do you pronounce beasterly?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbiː.stɚ.li/.
What does beasterly mean?: Of the wind: cold, unpleasant, and from the east.
Where does beasterly come from?: Blend of beastly + easterly.

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