plain dunstable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because I value Mr. Solmes as my friend, you treat him the worse — That's the plain Dunstable of the matter, Miss! — I am not such a fool but I can see that."
- "‘Fancy roams over half the world in lovers' sighs, and plain Dunstable in gallantry belongs only to the Puritan ; but never have I met such fantastic wooing and cooing since I went in for daggering of arms myself.’"
- "For the plain Dunstable of the matter is' (and it was remarkable how soon, on discovering that they were of the same sex, her manner changed and she dropped her plaintive, appealing ways), 'the plain Dunstable of the matter is, that I 'm not in the mood for the society of the other sex tonight."
- "Before you betake yourself to new grammarian labours and dictionary inventions, learn to understand a plain Latin metaphor, that your denials thereof, because it is not in plain dunstable terms, be not reputed, if not profoundly impudent, yet profoundly ignorant."
- "Why, master Thorney, do you mean to talk out your dinner ? the company attends your coming . What must it be, master Frank ? or son Frank ? I am plain Dunstable."
- "Howbeit there were some good walkers among them that walked in the king's highway ordinarily, uprightly, plain Dunstable way; and for this purpose I would show you an history which is written in the third of the Kings."
Etymology
Likely from an old Bedfordshire proverb "as plain as Dunstable road" or "as plain as Dunstable highway".
Usage
Inflected Forms
more plain Dunstable (comparative)
most plain Dunstable (superlative)