monkey paw
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- ""Seems we were all living bad dreams," he said. "Wishes coming true in a monkey-paw way.""
- "It was Tom's monkey paw, that wish that he could be the provider in the family. Suddenly my father was dead and the gauntlet was passed to my oldest brother."
- "For obvious reasons, I didn't trust demon favors. I had to think quickly, something that wouldn't backfire. There was a lesson to be learned from that whole monkey paw deal."