Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

puppily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pup-pi-ly
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Befitting a puppy.

Obsolete

adv

In a puppyish manner.

Example Sentences

"Sometimes I was puppily in love, sometimes I was pettily in love, and sometimes — due to my OCD — I was even pathologically in love."

Etymology

From puppy + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: puppy

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more puppily (comparative) most puppily (superlative)

Questions

What does puppily mean?: Befitting a puppy.
Where does puppily come from?: From puppy + -ly.

How to pronounce puppily

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