hair-on-fire
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic.
Example Sentences
- "Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking."
- "[T]he most common reactions to Ryan ranged from gnawing apprehension to hair-on-fire anger."
- "I’ve made something of a career in debunking nonsense when it comes to science, from people who think the Moon landings were faked to hair-on-fire UFOlogists who think every lens flare and dust mote in a photo is the precursor to an alien invasion."
- "This race [between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel, for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court] wasn’t the only contest of the night that suggested that Democrats are hair-on-fire to vote."