infracaninophile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But I do quarrel with those who under the guise of friendship for labor assume the role of infracaninophiles and then proceed to sabotage everything that means anything to labor."
- "'A lover of the upper-dog', as distinguished from today's infracaninophiles."
- "I was already a committed infracaninophile, and Gestalt psychology was clearly the underdog in a department that included B. F. Skinner."
Etymology
Pseudo-Latinism, derived from infra- + canine + -phile. An early twentieth-century coinage by American writer Christopher Morley.