sancho panza
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I defend the pudgy Sancho Panzas, the rotund Ragueneaus, and the sentimental Samwise Gamgees of the world."
- "Nanak's companion, Mardana, was ardently attached to his master and fully believed in him; but his healthy, natural appetite often got the better of his high spiritual aspirations. He had no genius for saintliness and not the slightest predilection for an ascetic life, but had had sanctity thrust upon him by circumstances. He was the Sancho Panza of spiritual knight-errantry, and often grew weary of wandering about in jungles and warring upon invisible, and, what seemed to him, imaginary adversaries."
- "It would be extremely interesting if we had time to give in detail the romantic episodes in the lives of many of these Troubadours, such as Bernart de Ventadour, who, born of the humblest parentage, was the favorite in the courts of the Dukes of Normandy and the Counts of Toulouse; or such as Peire Vidal, the Sancho Panza of the Provençal poets, half genius, half fool, "who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.""
- "He christened Prince Napoleon Jérome Egalité, M. Thiers King Ego, Father Hyacinthe the Sancho Panza of the Church; and his printed sketches of divers anti-clerical people are like anatomical dissections, so cruelly do they expose the innermost blemishes of the victims."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Sancho Panzas (plural)