uffish
/ˈʌfɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!"
- "The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow."
- "Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more uffish (comparative)
most uffish (superlative)