Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

miss marple

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English

Syllables: mis-s -marple
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A detective, especially an older woman.

Example Sentences

"The indomitable seventy-one-year-old chemistry professor, Mary Louisa Willard, the Miss Marple of State College, had arrived to help her boys find whatever material evidence might remain after the unfortunate contamination of the crime scene early Friday night. She was certain that something was still there to find."
"Le Dœuff has been rightly described as 'a female detective' - the Miss Marple of philosophy; with her finely tuned skills of logic, lucidity and wit, she carefully teases out the philosophical, as well as the political issues within the history of texts."
"Somebody said you were the Miss Marple of Perth"

Etymology

From the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple.

Inflected Forms

Miss Marples (plural)

Questions

What does miss marple mean?: A detective, especially an older woman.
Where does miss marple come from?: From the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple.

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