rabelaisian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais.
adj
Possessing a style of satirical humour characterized by exaggerated or grotesque characters and coarse jokes.
Example Sentences
- "In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word."
- "For although of unexceptionable morality, and addressed virginibus puerisque, the stories and illustrations with which this and others of these collections abound are frequently of a very Rabelaisian character."
- "The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining."
Etymology
Calque of French rabelaisien.