old-boyism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And they serve it up with a powerful seasoning of old-boyism and arbitrary clique preference as between white males."
- "A recent president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, an organization regarded almost universally as a bastion of 'old-boyism,' was the female chief of police of Gaithersburg, Maryland."
- "The latter are characteristically few in number, and they reciprocate government old-boyism and good-old-boyism with heart-warmineg liberal donations to conservative causes — electoral and otherwise."