kickable
/ˈkɪkəbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own half and booting a kickable penalty to touch."
- "I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, […] fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured."
- "Kickable people are of various descriptions. Amongst these are your kickable subjects prima facie;—those whose provocatives are visible and external, whose incentives to you to kick them lie chiefly in manner and bearing."
- "All sorts of kickable objects were used from ancient times until today's inflated ball, with a leather casing between 27 and 28 inches in circumference, was adopted."
- "The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain."
- "Insolence of office is pre-eminently kickable. Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him? […] Petty tyranny is also eminently kickable."
Etymology
Etymology tree English kick Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English kickable From kick + -able.
Inflected Forms
more kickable (comparative)
most kickable (superlative)