swimmy
/ˈswɪ.mi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An inflatable armband to help children swim.
Example Sentences
- "I hadn't noticed at Peter Anderson's—my head was too swimmy to notice anything."
- ""I guess it was the heat, but I felt swimmy for a moment. That's all.""
- "It was as well I was sitting down; the experience of dizziness induced by a familial revelation did not seem to be a condition I was becoming inured to, despite the frequency with which it had swept through me in the past few days. My sight seemed to go a bit swimmy for a while, but I just sat and waited for it to clear."
Etymology
From swim + -y.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈswɪ.mi/
- British English: /ˈswɪ.mi/
Inflected Forms
more swimmy (comparative)
swimmier (comparative)
most swimmy (superlative)
swimmiest (superlative)
swimmies (plural)