creese
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "‘[S]hould any of the men discover you, certainly you will have one of their creeses up to the hilt in your guts.’"
- "[…] near it is a cluster of weapons of villanous aspect, comprising every thing from a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife or a Smith & Wesson revolver."
- "Attributing this to accident, or some impropriety of conduct on the part of the sailor, he went to enquire personally into the affair; but had no sooner approached the head Boorghese, than the fellow creesed him also, and he fell dead at his feet."