mother wit
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Kate. Where did you study all this goodly speech? Petr. It is extempore, from my mother wit."
- "For all that nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there […]."
- "His mother-wit taught him that he must not, in such uncertain times, be too hasty in asking information of any one, [...]"
- "The buffoon, though accustomed to deception and frauds, had sufficient mother-wit to comprehend the critical position in which he was now placed."
- "One of those young genii who write us Science Notes in the papers got hold of a German pamphlet about the birds of New Zealand, and translated some of it by means of a dictionary and his mother-wit — he must have been one of a very large family with a small mother — and he got mixed between the living apteryx and the extinct anomalopteryx..."
- "Russian author Panova, writing with unostentatious excellence, has both the compassion and the mother wit to describe the world of a six-year-old—and to recall an existence that most grownups have forgotten."