hizzoner
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Eye dialect spelling of His Honor, the mayor, especially of a large city.
American usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "1930, John Bright, Hizzoner Big Bill Thompson: An Idyll of Chicago, [book title]."
- "Minnesota: Meet Hizzoner the Mayor... Canon... would go through an elaborate bowing-and-scraping routine as he addressed Hizzoner the Mayor."
- "In 1989, they wrote a book, entitled His Eminence and Hizzoner, in which they set forth their differences in amicable fashion."
- "Mike asked nothing in return for his generosity, but when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2."
- "He's the mayor's favorite golf partner. Once I had to deliver an envelope to hizzoner at the Bel-Air Country Club, and he introduced me to Sturmack."
- "The publisher of Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner promises to stem his paper’s criticism of Mayor Willie Brown if Hizzoner doesn’t oppose Hearst's takeover of the rival Chronicle."
Etymology
From his honor.