ungloved
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not wearing a glove; barehanded.
Example Sentences
- "Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand."
- "Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there; our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet[…]"
- "Mrs. Hauksbee laid her hand lightly upon the ungloved paw that rested on the turned-backed ’rickshaw hood, and, looking the man full in the face, said tenderly, almost too tenderly, “I believe in you if you mistrust yourself.”"
- "Keep your dignity here even though other folk are expending any amount of piranhic energy implanting their ungloved lunch hooks into the property left by another."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English gloved English ungloved From un- + gloved.