brady bunch
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large number of children in a family; a large family.
Example Sentences
- "And even if individuals can afford it, it's also become clear that the planet probably can't — that the world, were it composed of a billion Brady Bunches, would buckle under the environmental strain."
- "I haven't heard anything from Sariel or Rufus, not that I hear anything from those two and their respective Brady Bunches except for reports on babies and pregnancy stages."
- "The other families group themselves differently: empty nests, single parents, working mothers, spinsters with cats, curmudgeons with canes, the Brady bunches, reconstituted households of halves, steps, formers, and presents."
- "I have only one child gone and not a gaggle like the Kennedys, like the Brady Bunches of steps and halves of children that went off wholesale with her, so I suppose I don't have as much anger."
Etymology
A reference to the television sitcom The Brady Bunch, which featured the joining of two single-parent families.