orful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
Example Sentences
- "I ain't bin werry well lately, and, to crown the hole, I was cort in the Lizzard, I think, as they called it, on that awful Munday nite, and that was pretty nearly a settler for both my old bones and my breth, and might ha' bin quite so, if one of the werry kindest Members of the old Copperashun as I nos on, who had bin a dining with a jolly party on 'em, hadn't kindly directed my notise to about a harf bottle-full of werry fine old Port, with the remarkabel kind words, "That's just about what you wants, Mr. ROBERT, to take you ome safely this most orful nite!""
- ""Gorblimey, it's bleedin' orful," said they."
- ""That's a bally orful way to get even with a henemy!" exclaimed a stoker, who sat on the edge of the forward hatch."
- ""It's orful silly of you to stick to that notion!"
- ""He felt orful bad at not bein' invited, and made some poetry about 'em."
- ""You are a orful naughty girl," he pouted reproachfully."