philhippic
/fɪlˈhɪpɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A philhippic discourse is to be endured from him, not incomparable to that of those pubescent girls who would readily entrap the Unicorn and who doubtless would make the Minocorn no less welcome […]."
- "This is a particularly apt satire of Englishness inasmuch as it is surrounded by the jingoistic mockery of the philhippic Neapolitan, the fantastical Frenchman, the cowardly Scot and the drunk German."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /fɪlˈhɪpɪk/
Inflected Forms
more philhippic (comparative)
most philhippic (superlative)