Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

horsemanning

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: horse-man-ning
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of posing for a photograph in such a way that one appears to have been beheaded, with the head resting on the ground or on a surface.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"“There's a picture of a kid on there,” Bob accused, “a dead kid with his head cut off. Where did you even get it!?” Kevin shook his head in disbelief. “It's horsemanning, dad,” he said, disgusted at his parents' stupidity."
"[…] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]"

Etymology

From horseman + -ing, in allusion to the Headless Horseman of folklore.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: horseman

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

horsemaning (alternative)

Questions

What does horsemanning mean?: The act of posing for a photograph in such a way that one appears to have been beheaded, with the head resting on the ground or on a surface.
Where does horsemanning come from?: From horseman + -ing, in allusion to the Headless Horseman of folklore.

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