housie
/ˈhaʊzi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Aficionados continued to play housie for the rest of the decade, but always under the threat of criminal prosecution."
- "She ran raffles, card games and housie to raise money for Māori welfare."
- "Thursday night was housie night at St Monica′s hall."
- "2010, Michael Caulfield (editor), The Voices of War: Australians Tell Their Stories from World War I to the Present, unumbered page, He was very officious—universally hated—and bingo, then called housie, was illegal, because we had a housie game and we used to play this on deck and we were all up on deck in our shorts and we′d give warning if he was coming."
- "Deeper down he felt strangely like Goldilocks in the old kids’ story. He was sitting in Baby Bear’s chair, he had Baby Bear’s book in his lap, and he was going to find Baby Bear’s little housie. Before long, if all went well, he would be hiding underneath Baby Bear’s little beddie."
- "On the other hand, I've always appreciated phonetic script over ideograms. I'd druther have "home", "reload", "open", "print", "find" and so on instead of a little housie, a little self-refferential^([sic]) arrow, a cute little keyboard, a sheet of paper, and a pair of binoculars."
Etymology
From house + -ie.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhaʊzi/