quockerwodger
/ˈkwɑkəɹˌwɑd͡ʒəɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Just hand the old quockerwodger over to me! I'll cut him in half and each part will dance on the rope just as comically as you please!"
- ""I have a word for writers of his stripe," Mrs. Hale continued. […] "Quockerwodgers, I call them. Quockerwodgers are puppets. Always squawking. 'Look at me!' But they never do anything very remarkable or different.""
- "[Charles] Lee was a scarecrow, cantankerous, acidulous, arrogant, breathlessly ugly, as jerky as a quockerwodger, but he knew more about the art of war, as it was breathlessly called, than anybody else in America […]"
- "Pierre Soulé was a distinguished and effervescent resident of New Orleans. He was a jumping-jack of a man, a man who leapt into action like a quockerwodger when you jerk the string."
- "I felt a grip like iron. A strength beyond all reckoning lifted me and flung me like a child's quockerwodger toy soldier, wooden limbs flailing herk-a-jerk."
- "Did I predicate that Royalty in this as well as in all other unenlightened parts of the superficial universe, was a Quockerwodger?"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkwɑkəɹˌwɑd͡ʒəɹ/
- British English: /ˈkwɒkəˌwɒd͡ʒə/