Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

purselike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: purse-like
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a purse.

Example Sentences

"[…] holding his head cocked to the side and his mouth set purselike, as he always did when he was fixing to deliver a pronouncement."

Etymology

From purse + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: purse

Inflected Forms

more purselike (comparative) most purselike (superlative)

Questions

What does purselike mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a purse.
Where does purselike come from?: From purse + -like.

How to pronounce purselike

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