niggerhead
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A coral or stone outcrop that stands above the surface of the water.
Countable; Offensive; Uncountable
noun
A tussock (clump of plant material), found on the tundra.
American usage; Countable; Dated; Offensive; Uncountable
noun
A strong black variety of chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We were sailing swiftly along on a calm and glassy sea, past beautiful headlands and bits of scenery clothed with vivid and luxuriant green down to the water's edge; past glistening coral islands, on whose outer edges pale green billows broke on the white sandy beaches, boiling and seething as they dashed against a row of ugly "nigger heads," as the rocks were called, dotted here and there."
- "Sometimes the hourglass waist of a niggerhead gave him shelter and he rested for a few moments knowing that the small froth of his air-bubbles would be hidden by the jagged knob protruding above the surface."
- "Landward is the almost unbroken wall of submerged reefs where the big niggerhead corals send their solid bulks up to within a fathom or two of the surface."
- "These plants fill the interstices between the grasses and tiny shrubs that make the outer, fuller form of the niggerhead."
- "Responsible in large part for the difficulties of movement to which the geologists referred were tussocks, still known as “niggerheads” in the 1930s. The “niggerhead,” according to Bob Marshall, “among the gifts of nature, ranks as the most cursed.[…]”"
- "Much of the land is tundra, a mass of spongy, waterlogged clumps of sphagnum moss called tussock, muskeg, hummock, or in the vernacular of old-time Alaskans “niggerheads.”"
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Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Nigger Head
niggerhead last