guttery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
Example Sentences
- "Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment of pale pink soap."
- "I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern."
- "On the Warlocks' early records, for all that the music was grim and dark and guttery, there was a lightness and a sense of fun in the totally over-the-top playing, each repetitive, maddening, Chinese-water-torture ching-ching-ching drawn out so far past the point of absurdity you could imagine strobe lights flashing off the band's shit-eating grins."
- "DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour."
- "The more guttery bit of our mind wants to break into a disco remix of 'Ranbir and Priyanka sitting in a tree…'"
- "In large abattoirs, the triperies and gutteries should preferably be situated under the slaughtering halls and in direct contact with them, by means of a system of chutes."
Etymology
From gutter + -y.