Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pelurious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pelu-ri-ous
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"[…] York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and pumets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes."

Etymology

Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his novel Ulysses. From Anglo-Norman pelure (“pelt, fur, animal skin”) + -ious.

Word Breakdown

Root: pelure
Suffix: ious

Inflected Forms

more pelurious (comparative) most pelurious (superlative)

Questions

What does pelurious mean?: Hairy.
Where does pelurious come from?: Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his novel Ulysses. From Anglo-Norman pelure (“pelt, fur, animal skin”) + -ious.

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