owly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
adj
Example Sentences
- "In the picture Miss Elizabeth showed me the croc had little piggy eyes, not huge owly ones."
- "I had no right to be owly and disagreeable with Willie."
- "Perhaps nice isn't the best word for him, but he certainly was an unusually imposing and fluffy-haired and fierce-looking brute of a tarantula. He had rather an owly way about him, as if he had come out from his hole too early and was dazed and half-blinded by the light."
Etymology
From owl + -y.