scringe
/skɹɪnd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Any teenager who, like myself, has ever got the gooseflesh at the flush and scringe of Hopkins's assonances and alliterations proves this upon his or her pulses ."
- "[…] to the scringe of bedsprings as the old landlady shook herself awake and reached for her false teeth,"
- "But Bill would have none of this: it grated upon his sensibility, like the scringe of chalk upon a slate in the schoolroom, or like our collie dog at home in Garvaghey, who, when Aunt Freda played the piano, would raise his noble nose and howl derisively."
- "Well, on that June day I embraced her with a slight scringe, and, seating her in my armchair, threw myself down upon the floor, out of reach of her arms, with my hands clasped around my knees."
- "Take courage, brother: you are making better progress than we are, for I cannot even get a scringe."
- "A scringe of pain brought the German back to the present ."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- American usage
- Intransitive verb