shellacked
/ʃˌɛlˈækd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold."
- "Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked."
Etymology
From shellac + -ed.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more shellacked (comparative)
most shellacked (superlative)