earwiggy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells..."
- "The lady is whisked off as unceremoniously as though she were a Sabino damsel; she is transported to a dusty and, I fear, an earwiggy conservatory, […]"
- "So while an earwig can indeed crawl into a person's ear, it seems that a place has to be pretty darn earwiggy for such a thing to happen by chance."
Etymology
Etymology tree English earwig Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English earwiggy From earwig + -y.
Inflected Forms
more earwiggy (comparative)
most earwiggy (superlative)