nazgul
/ˈnæzɡul/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An evil force which heedlessly destroys everything in its path, and appears like a horseman dressed all in black.
Example Sentences
- "The West Hampstead studio flat looks like the Nazgul have just thundered through it […]"
- "The last thing she wanted was for Zach to come storming out of the house like a Nazgul, telling her to get the hell away from his daughter."
- "There's three blokes who look like the Nazgul in pinstripes, and a skinny hatchetfaced bird who keeps saying “Well?” at me every time she asks me a question and I don't answer her inside half a second."
- "(On Lost Souls there is a Ringwraith guild; Nazguls are members at levels 26-29.)"
- "In the Touist^([sic]) quest, there was a polymorph trap on the first level, and one of the non-peaceful buggers polyed into a Nazgul (ugh!)."
- "AFAIK Moria itself has never had uniques, though some variants do (Morgul has the nine Nazguls, for instance) or artifacts."
Etymology
From nazgûl (“ringwraith”) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional language Black Speech, a compound of nazg (“ring”) and gûl (“wraith; evil spirit”). Tolkien thought it “probable” that the former term nazg was “actually derived from” Irish nasc (“link, bond”), though not borrowed consciously. For the latter term gûl compare ghoul.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: nasc
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnæzɡul/