Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reluctant dragon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables: re-luc-tan-t -drag-on
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A reluctant person; somebody unwilling to get involved.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"ENDICOTT: I think probably one of the promotive things we did was to finally convince Luther Terry that he had to do something about smoking and health. He certainly was a reluctant dragon, for a long time."
"[…] Dodd seemed a “reluctant dragon.” No report on his violence probe was ever published. An interim report was mimeographed in a watered-down version for subcommittee members, but never released to the public."
"Cage, a barrel-chested, tattooed (and how!) loner, finds himself dragooned into national service, a reluctant dragon, selected after a series of bizarre “tests” and then infiltrated into Prague […]"

Etymology

In reference to The Reluctant Dragon, an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame about a shy dragon with no desire to fight people, adapted into a Walt Disney animated film in 1941.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

reluctant dragons (plural)

Questions

What does reluctant dragon mean?: A reluctant person; somebody unwilling to get involved.
Where does reluctant dragon come from?: In reference to The Reluctant Dragon, an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame about a shy dragon with no desire to fight people, adapted into a Walt Disney animated film in 1941.

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