Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

droogish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dro-ogish
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Amoral and savage, like a droog.

Example Sentences

"In the second case, when droogish chivalry is revealed as illusory, Kubrick makes the scene ironic by timing it to Gene Kelly's song of joy from Singin' in the Rain (1952)."
"The rock star's droogish image had taken on a revolutionary glow; his music rang like a call to insurrection […]"
"These particular refugees have escaped the Droogish nightmare of Red Chinese environmentalists and are ensnared now in the grinding bureaucracy of immigration court."
"I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism."

Etymology

Etymology tree English droog Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English droogish From droog + -ish.

Inflected Forms

more droogish (comparative) most droogish (superlative)

Questions

What does droogish mean?: Amoral and savage, like a droog.
Where does droogish come from?: Etymology tree English droog Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English droogish From droog + -ish.

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