bonus genius
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A benevolent spirit or angel, seen as influencing a person's decisions in a beneficial way.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "I'd pull out my cards and card-boxes, and the bonus genius or the wooden doll, and then I'd spread a nice clean cloth (which I always carried with me) on the table, and then I'd go to work."
- "The trick of the little figure that vanishes, the Bonus Genius, as it was called, can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when this trick was recorded in one of the earliest magic books […]"
- "I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]"