floogy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A nonce word with no fixed meaning
Example Sentences
- "Another haunt of the jivers and flat-foot floogies is the Cotton Club at 200 West Forty-eighth Street, where Duke Ellington plays."
- "Neither does it bother the floogy on the front seat, in pink slacks and a pseudo-sailor souvenir cap cocked on her synthetic curls."
- "Muriel Castanis's Flatbush Floogies are elegant, patinated-bronze relief murals showing female forms suspended from above, much like angels."
- "Nobody, unless he be a floogy boogy bird, who has been watching the accomplishments of the N. A. R. D. and the A. Ph. A. could even insinuate that we have not had a voice in Washington;"
- "There are no pairs in this hand and only two cards in the same suit. That's a floogie. It beats anything."
- "...if children lived on boats and didn't take to the water immediately, we would put "floogies" on their arms to keep them afloat and build confidence until they learned how to swim."