big-brotherly
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or characteristic of older brothers.
Example Sentences
- "Coordinate term: big-sisterly"
- "“I don’t blame you, boys, for sending Lorraine to Coventry”, he began, in a big-brotherly style."
- "And it came to me that Gouverneur Morris often wrote as a high-born American man of the world about forty, in a big-brotherly mood, might talk to a nice girl of sixteen. That was his style."
- "[...] a big-brotherly air of amusement [...]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English big brother Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English big-brotherly From big brother + -ly (adjectival suffix).