daddock
/ˈdædək/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We crushed the flowers to dust again, And leaped the daddock pile, And hunted, with a careless rein, The foe in savage style."
- "and you have not enough Of fairness left to tempt a truant hand To pluck you from the daddock in the clough, And give your spirit to the summer land"
- "The partridge drums upon the hill, a daddock old and battered, While, now and then, an oriole lights up a scarlet gleam."
- "Delicate sensitiveness will turn away in fear and disgust as some mouldering daddock is removed, and lizards, sloes, darting beetles, and plodding snails are dazed by the light."
- "Christendom's favouring renegades was of the greatest service to the Hebrew race, for it helped Judaism to despumate her ills and diseases; every tree has its daddock. The blackmailing Jewish apostates were the daddock of Israel."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈdædək/
Usage
- British usage