ostrichy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an ostrich.
adj
Characteristic of one who buries one’s head in the sand (like in popular depictions of ostriches).
Example Sentences
- "Once upon a time there was an ostrich who, though very ostrichy, was even more of an egoist."
- "He nodded and gave us both a kind of ostrichy smile."
- "He beamed down at her from his ostrichy height."
- "This one went all on its hind legs, its long thin tail stretched out behind it for balance: it went with a long-legged ostrichy gait that Dairine suspected could turn into an incredible sprint."
- "And then her neck: “Too ostrichy. Preferable fowl neck: swan.”"
- "Stuffing that head of his into the sand – his ostrichy, beaky face."
Etymology
From ostrich + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more ostrichy (comparative)
most ostrichy (superlative)