horsefeather
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of the long hairs on lower legs of a draft horse, see horsefeathers.
noun
A cocktail made of rye or blended whiskey, ginger ale, lemon juice and bitters.
Example Sentences
- "I took the feather from him and ran my hand down the soft, wet bristles. "You telling me this is a horsefeather" I asked."
- ""Oh, great holy goose grease!" the reported gasped in a hushed whisper. "Strike me blind with a horsefeather and let the cuckoo bird eat out my brain!"
- "The prince at once set to bargaining with the Agrarians, and offered them pieces of gold but they would part with the Part That Is Also a Plow on one and only one condition: that the Prince give them a horsefeather in trade so that the might fine-tune their crop of Stringed Beans. "Goos quills simply do not suffice! their leader said."