crazy bone
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The funny bone; the ulnar nerve in the elbow.
Example Sentences
- "I have seen a person in England, who had touched a torpedo; and he said the shock it gave him, was like striking that tender part of the elbow, which we call the crazy bone, very hard indeed;"
- "My hand was at his elbow, my fingers just at the indentation of his elbow, just about where you bump the nerve point everyone calls the “crazy-bone”."