mammothrept
/ˈmaməθɹɛpt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "O, you are a meere mammothrept in judgement, then. Why, doe you not obserue how excellently the dittie is affected in euerie place?"
- "She concludes, "you better apologize." The day I apologize to you, you contumacious mammothrept, there will be two moons in the sky."
- "‘And having seen the parents I am impatient to see this youth, the fruit of their strangely unattractive loins: will he be a wretched mammothrept?’"
Etymology
From Late Latin mammothreptus (“kept at the breast too long”), from Koine Greek μαμμόθρεπτος (mammóthreptos, “brought up by one’s grandmother”), from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē, “grandmother”) + θρεπτός (threptós) verbal adjective from τρέφω (tréphō, “to bring up”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mammothreptus, μαμμόθρεπτος, μάμμη
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈmaməθɹɛpt/