hairpinned
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Produced by a hairpin transfer.
Example Sentences
- "Well, if the Frau Pastor preferred behaving like a log instead of a proud mother — Frau Dosch shrugged her shoulder, put on a coloured dimity jacket over her petticoat, kicked off her slippers, and went, stockinged and hairpinned, to bed and to instant sleep."
- "Here was a young woman dressed in drab and severely hairpinned."
- "That said, what they show is still numbing: “Look at that crease,” says Wick, pointing out a cumulus-shaped gash of white in the steepest, most hairpinned part of the river course."
- "In the early days, there was often a decrease in the number of cars as we climbed the dramatically hairpinned road to Bikfaya, the large town just below Dhour that I knew for its famous peaches and a fantastic red-and-tinsel-colored toy shop, "Kaiser Amer.""
- "Cross the bridge over the lake and climb a hairpinned road to the village."
- "The resulting DNA ends consist of blunt phosphorylated recombination signal end, and coding ends with hairpinned termini."
Etymology
From hairpin + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more hairpinned (comparative)
most hairpinned (superlative)