drossy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most profane and winnowed opinions"
- "They found the Mass, ’tis true, but in their Mould They purg’d the drossy Oar to current Gold: Mending their patttern, they escap’d the Curse, Yet had they not writ better, they’d writ worse."
Etymology
From dross + -y.