shipwrecky
/ˈʃɪpɹɛki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of a shipwreck.
Example Sentences
- ""I was only joking. We've escaped from a burning vessel, you know, and every one else is either burned or drowned. We've provisions for a month, if we don't eat too much, and we're in the South Sea Islands. South Sea Islands sound nice and shipwrecky, don't you think so?""
- "But down below he is not so good by any means — no spring from the loins, and feeblish, not to say shipwrecky, about the knees."
- "So there I was, standing by the roadside in pitch darkness with my belongings and shipwrecky knees."
Etymology
From shipwreck + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more shipwrecky (comparative)
most shipwrecky (superlative)