half seas over
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Many of my readers will recollect the memorable night, on which William Pitt and his ingenious friend and jovial compotator, Harry Dundas, went into the House of Commons, in a condition usually described by the phrase "of being half seas over.""
- "They strutted into the box department at the English Opera House, on the preceding night at half price, and half-seas-over — whether with cape, blackstrap, or blue ruin, did not appear. Two of them were particularly half-seas-over, viz. — Mr. Bob Dodd and Mr. Will. Wood; the other, Mr. Fred. Hughes, was but so so."