leaping house
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day."
- "In the late sixteenth century, the word nunnery also came to mean brothel. . . . Around the same time, the synonymous leaping-house also emerged, which anticipated the eighteenth-century terms vaulting-school and pushing-school, all implying vigorous acts of sex."