tumbledown
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In disrepair; poorly maintained.
Example Sentences
- "They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods."
- "The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder."
- "Some distance north of both stations was a rather small and tumbledown shed for Great Central engines, and there was generally one or more goods tank engines outside it, painted black and lined out in red."
Etymology
Deverbal from tumble down.