cactused
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Broken; ruined; no longer working, more recently especially related to a technical system.
Australian usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "I could not imagine Cadwallader Davies the grocer, in his near-to-waking dream, riding on horseback, two-gunned and Cody-bold, through the cactused prairies."
- "On top it's a dry cactused area inhabited by typical upper desert creatures such as kangaroo rats and collared lizards."
- "Ponderosa forests, open meadows, cactused badlands, and river-carved sedimentary layers make appearances."
- "My computer is cactused."
- "His high spirits descended temporarily. 'It took me thirty minutes to get her going again. The lift pump is cactused.'"
- "the only time this does not work is when my DNS name server is cactused (which happens once or twice a year.)"
Etymology
From cactus + -ed. Australian colloquialism may have originated as a result of the Australian prickly pear plague in the early 20th century, which overran farmland, making it unusable.