Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wiredrawing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wire-draw-ing
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.

verb

present participle and gerund of wiredraw

Example Sentences

"Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter."

Etymology

From wiredraw + -ing.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: wiredraw

Inflected Forms

wiredrawings (plural)

Questions

What does wiredrawing mean?: gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.
Where does wiredrawing come from?: From wiredraw + -ing.

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