Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

posy-sniffer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English

Syllables: posy-s-nif-fer
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of posy sniffer.

noun

Alternative form of posy sniffer.

Example Sentences

""I... just... can't... stand... having some... goddamned... posy-sniffer of a main-line Philadelphia closet queen... who inherited his fucking money... and doesn't have any fucking idea of what goes into making it... trying"--and here her teeth came together and stayed there, and the expression on her face went grim and bitter again--"to tell me how to run my own fucking business.""
"Carl glared at the Greenpeace stall a few metres further along the mall. 'I wish we hadn't set up so close to the posy-sniffers.'"
"Beau pointed to the environmentalists and said, “Those posy-sniffers will never change— until they have no gas for their cars.”"

Inflected Forms

posy-sniffers (plural)

Questions

What does posy-sniffer mean?: Alternative form of posy sniffer.

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