sixie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A seventh-grader at Boston Latin School.
Example Sentences
- "Elena went on to Boston Latin alone, and Genette got into a crowd in her middle school. Even though Elena was in seventh grade, at Boston Latin she was called a sixie, and they were the bottom of the heap."
- "We can hum the "1812 Overture" (complete with howitzer) from memory, we've got streets named after Mendelssohn and Liszt, and we knew Lenny Bernstein when he was a sixie at Latin."
- "I'm particularly aware of Boston State because when I was a sixie (seventh grader) at Boston Latin in the Fall of 1983, the sign on the building of the old Boston State was around the corner from BLS."