hourful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The silver tufts of grass have fed the air with hourfuls of mealy ferine smells and hot-backed buzzards, eagles and vultures must have chased their murderous shadows through the bush"
- "Hills to the north and to the south shut in all the dampness and shut out hoursful of sun."
- "Arriving about 1 A.M. at Locknan's Station, a few log and timber huts near a creek well feathered with white oak and American elm, hickory and black walnut, we found beds and snatched an hourful of sleep."
- "A German professor always gives good measure, a full hourful, pressed down, shaken together, and running over; no period of preliminary meditation on what he shall say and of casual conversation at the end, as often in America."
- "And all I did was Moan and rise and moan And fall And pain away and break And slip In many hourful whiles."
- "Angley then drifts into his hourful, mouthful extempore, accentuated with refrains of "cast the demon away with the power of the Lord.""