laurel and hardy
/ˈlɔɹ.əl ænd ˈhɑɹ.di/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We put a Laurel and Hardy thing together. With ordinary actors I've tried this, and it's like playing music without an instrument, but these guys could do anything."
- "Then about a hundred yards ahead, two men, one rotund the other thin and spare, leaped over a gate onto the road. They had the appearance of a Laurel and Hardy duo."
- "The session quickly devolved into a Laurel-and-Hardy skit, as an NRC bureaucrat named Lawrence Kokajko was grilled by the commissioners, particularly Hamilton, a man used to having bureaucrats tremble before him."
- "[…] when someone has a Laurel and Hardy moment where they slip on a banana skin […]"
- "She was heavy: not fat, but solid, and it looked good on her; still, we must have seemed a Laurel and Hardy match, the two times we would have been observed together in public, me being whichever comedy star was the lanky one."
- "When he got up to answer, I noticed the boy at the other end of the desk was partially standing. This happened every time. So I quietly walked around and noticed that the long bench they were sitting ^([sic]) had a leg missing at the end. Sensing a Laurel-and-Hardy situation, I could not resist the temptation."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɔɹ.əl ænd ˈhɑɹ.di/
- British English: /ˈlɒɹ.əl ænd ˈhɑː.di/