lap-doggy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a lap dog.
Example Sentences
- "He wrote appreciatively of the usefulness and good conduct of the watch-dog, a splendid creature, much bigger than I am, with the lap-doggy name of Mou-Mou."
- "I bent down and scratched Duffy behind his perky black ears. He leapt up on my unstable lap and rubbed his head against my chest. He never does anything so lap-doggy."
Etymology
From lap dog + -y.
Inflected Forms
more lap-doggy (comparative)
most lap-doggy (superlative)