philliloo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A row or disturbance.
Example Sentences
- "They talk, they laugh, they dance, they make a row — / Kick up a philliloo."
- "“[A]n' puss was miowin' fur the dear life, an' slappin' her tail backwards an' forwards, which whin it id hit agin the dog's chaps, he'd snap at it an' bite it, an' thin there was the philliloo.”"
- "And iver since thin, on that day, / They kill him agin that same way, / Wid shticks and wid shtones, / Philliloos and loud groans, / In short, there's the divil to pay."
- "Dubious as this charge sounded, it added to the general philliloo."