Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flying purple people eater

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: fly-ing pur-ple peo-ple eater
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fanciful monster.

American usage

Example Sentences

"He exits quickly, looking like he's just seen the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater. "Some gooks are in there!""
"I used to be afraid to go to bed at night — the name was "one-eyed, one-eared flying purple people-eater.""
""Something ate the middle." / "I don't suppose that something was the flying purple people eater?" Chylak said. / He knew this scenario well: next Elliott would demand that his Happy Days night-light be left on all night"
"Being rushed by a hungry, one-eyed, one-armed flying purple people eater and its pet Zygot, however, will cause very high levels of SNS action"

Etymology

From The Purple People Eater, a song by Sheb Wooley, which describes the titular creature as a "flying purple people eater".

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

flying purple people eaters (plural) flying purple people-eater (alternative)

Synonyms

boogeyman

Questions

What does flying purple people eater mean?: A fanciful monster.
Where does flying purple people eater come from?: From The Purple People Eater, a song by Sheb Wooley, which describes the titular creature as a "flying purple people eater".

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