strephon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To see her from her pillow rise, All reeking in a cloudy steam, Crack'd lips, foul teeth, and gummy eyes,"
- "As when two doves, or two wood-pigeons, or as when Strephon and Phyllis (for that comes nearest to the mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary grove, to enjoy the delightful conversation of Love[…]"
- "[…] those palmy days of pastoral revelry;—when every lover was a Damon or a Strephon, and his beloved a Delia or a Celia."
- "I am still sick with his sentimentality of a Strephon. He is a flippant coxcomb."
- "All their tunes were gay and lively ones, and the younger men moved their feet to the music, while a Strephon at the lower end of the lists seized upon a blooming Chloe, and the two began to dance "as if," quoth the Colonel, "the musicians were so many tarantula doctors.""
- "Nero Wolfe: You know, of course, that Orrie Cather is in custody. What you don't know is that he was on intimate terms with Miss Kerr for about a year and she told him many things about you, her provider. Naturally, she told you nothing of him, her Strephon."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: στρέφων, στρέφω
Usage
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
lover and Thesaurus:sexual partner