bejeweled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Covered in jewels, especially as decoration.
verb
simple past and past participle of bejewel
Example Sentences
- "It is their silly pope and the rich, bejeweled bishops who are to blame and not the Catholic people."
- "We tried to block the glare from the lunch-break o’clock sun as we watched this babe with bejeweled nails dancing with a shirtless dude in the desert while rapping."
- "Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- Anglo-Norman juelbor. Middle English juel English jewel English bejewel Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English bejeweled From bejewel + -ed.