merrythought
/ˈmɛɹɪθɔːt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One puts yᵉ merrithought on his nose (slightly) like a paire of spectacles, and shakes his head till he shakes it off his nose."
- "All Birds want the Channel-bones in the Breast, instead whereof they have a bone, which we call the Merry thought."
- "Mrs. Knipp. (picking up from Ming's plate the merrythought on which her eye has just fallen, and holding it up). A merrythought. Who will pull this merrythought with me ? Nay (as they all lean forward), 'tis an affair of two not four. (They draw back simultaneously, eying each other sheepishly when Mrs. KNIPP laughs at their confusion)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English mery English merry Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought English merrythought From merry + thought, traditionally explained with reference to the pleasant thoughts imagined when the bone is ritually broken.