gimlety
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a gimlet or gimlets.
adj
Example Sentences
- "[…] in my opinion a man can’t raise good stock in no such way. They’ll be picayunish and nice and sharp featured and gimlety, but they won’t do to bet on like them children that’s been bro’t up ’round a fire-place on a hundred acre farm and had plenty of fresh air and latitude."
- "though thy cap be queer, / And thy curls gimlety, and thy cheeks thin,"
- "He had not the virile and spiritual tenacity of his uncle Charles II or of his grandfather Charles I, but he had a sort of gimlety tenacity which was not to be despised. He bored into a thing and held it."
- "1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps His jaw had shut like a rat-trap, and there was the fire of battle in his gimlety eyes."
- "Out of the black window Steerpike saw, as a result of his cough, the small gimlety eyes peer coldly from a crimson wedge."
- "He gives me a gimlety appraising glance through his silver rims […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English gimlet Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gimlety From gimlet + -y.
Inflected Forms
more gimlety (comparative)
most gimlety (superlative)