Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

twenty-five cent word

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: twen-ty--five -cen-t -word
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

7

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of ten-dollar word.

Canadian usage; American usage; Dated

Example Sentences

"The old man chuckled. “Well, you can bandy twenty-five cent words all you want, but— Say! we’ve never had a talk like this before, have we? […]”"
"1988, Howard Rosenthal, Not With My Life I Don’t: Preventing Your Suicide and That of Others, Muncie, Indiana: Accelerated Development, Inc., Chapter 4, p. 18, Some of the most incredible cases I have ever worked with involve the act of pulling strands of hair from one’s own head. Psychiatrists and psychologists have a twenty-five cent word for this behavior. They call it Trichotillomania."
"Remember that while the English language has lots of “twenty-five cent” words like perturb or effrontery, statuesque or decorous, it also has lots of essential short, sturdy words like of or but, say or stop or glow."

Usage

Inflected Forms

twenty-five cent words (plural)

Synonyms

ten-dollar word

Questions

What does twenty-five cent word mean?: Synonym of ten-dollar word.

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