gazer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who gazes.
Example Sentences
- "I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;"
- "Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:"
- "Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found."
- "I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in."
- "A few years before I had been one of the gazers at the Zoolus, and the Aztecs in London. Now the tables were turned upon me, for I was to these people a new and strange variety of man, and had the honour of affording to them, in my own person, an attractive exhibition, gratis."
- "Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green."
Etymology
Etymology tree English gaze Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English gazer From gaze + -er.