moth-ball
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of mothball.
Example Sentences
- "Me and Solly, as I now called him, prepared to shake off our moth-balls and wing our way against the arc-lights of the joyous and tuneful East."
- "The church interior was as comfortable as Sunday-morning toast and marmalade— […] and a general polite creaking of ladies' best strays and gentlemen's stiff shirt-bosoms, and an odor of the best cologne and moth-balls."