burglaree
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is burgled.
Example Sentences
- "When The Critic solicited Phelps's opinion on international copyright, she said, “It seems to me there can be but two opinions on such a matter, and that they cannot be unlike those of the burglar and of the burglaree” (“An Appeal” 65)."
- "To that the inner voice, resourceful devil that he was, had a persuasive counterargument: a burglary a few doors away, two days before I hit Mapes, would make Friday's burglary look like part of a string, and Mapes an incidental victim rather than a designated burglaree."
- "What was the world coming to when a burglar blamed the burglaree for causing the break-in?"
- "They want details from the burgled, the burglaree, the burglar being unavailable, so they would know where exactly in the house resistance might come from if they matured and were on a breaking and entering sortie themselves."
- "Beware, – to touch a beadle is, at least, flat burglaree."
- "A rollicking band of pirates we, Who, tired of tossing on the sea, Are trying their hand at a burglaree!"
Etymology
From burglar + -ee.