tallsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Marked, or characterised by tallness
Example Sentences
- "If you were yellow, 'stead of white, / And lived in far Hankow, / Had sat for weeks above the flood / Upon tallsome bough; [...]"
- "The little man stood up on Chert's shoulder and doffed his ratskin hat before making a small bow. “Beetledown the Bowman, I hight, tallsome lady. [...]”"
- "Someone in the present instance (not to make comparison with those tallsome dudes, you understand) so far out of the loop he doesn't even know what the loop is, nor cares to; [...]"
Etymology
From tall + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more tallsome (comparative)
most tallsome (superlative)