ownsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Marked by possession, ownership, or belonging; proper.
Example Sentences
- "Ranging somebody else's ownsome ground, Lacking somebody else's thrill, Haunting somebody else's too profound, Just a-ghosting for somebody else!"
- "I was doin' what I had to do to save my cares, those that still breathed, and if this cost me my ownsome life, well, that was the price that I had to pay."
- "This mother-diction engenders the mother-language as such (and therefore the ownsome wyrd of a manhood) in that it firmly hands over the speaking of that language unto its wyrdly biding as a say of en-owning."
- "The second joy that Mary had, It was the joy of two, To see her ownsome Jesus To make the lame to go."
- "Am I going to have to go there on my ownsome?"
- "Nelson Lavin had been a month at home on his ownsome watching Judge Judy at five in the morning."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: own