Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

espieglerie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: es-pieg-lerie
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Impish or playful behaviour; mischief.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I yield to no one in my appreciation of her espieglerie, but I'm one of the rabbits and always have been while she is about as pronounced a dasher as ever dashed. What I like is the quiet life, and Roberta Wickham wouldn't recognize the quiet life if you brought it to her on a plate with watercress round it. She's all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity."

Etymology

Borrowed from French espièglerie, see espiègle.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: espièglerie

Usage

Inflected Forms

espiegleries (plural)

Questions

What does espieglerie mean?: Impish or playful behaviour; mischief.
Where does espieglerie come from?: It is traced to French.

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