lewinsky
/luːˈɪnski/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "“Sixteen years ago, fresh out of college, a 22 year old intern in the White House – and more than averagely romantic – I fell in love with my boss in a 22-year old sort of way. It happens,” Lewinsky said."
- "Bill and Hillary Clinton spent last Monday together at Camp David, celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary. […] No word as of yet on what gifts the couple exchanged, but it's a good bet he did not receive a Lewinsky."
- "None more so than the incidents when Ms Temple gave the Deputy Prime Minister the full Lewinsky in his office, under the gaze of a portrait of Oliver Cromwell — although we are allowed to know that at such times "he would usually be going through his ministerial box, maybe something to do with regeneration, or the environment.""
- "Doctors have called for boys to be vaccinated against HPV just like teenage girls to stop the spread of the disease" that is spread during Lewinskys."
- "BTW, as long as we're talking about losing one's job over oral sex, should Newt be kicked out of the House for the, err, lewinskying he got from one of his female aides?"
- "The cartoon video for "Metal Fingers in My Body" is a girl's fantasy of Lewinskying R2D2."
Etymology
From a Slavic language, which added a patronymic suffix to the ultimately Hebrew root לוי (leví, “priest”), an occupational surname.