mary-bud
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And winking Mary-buds begin / To ope their golden eyes: / With every thing that pretty is, / My lady sweet, arise."
- "The garden lay below me, and the dewy meadows beyond. In the one, bees were busy ruffling the ruddy gillyflowers and April stocks; in the other, the hedge twigs were all frosted with Mary buds, as if Spring had brushed them with the fleece of her wings in passing."