wrynecked
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the thick of these scents and sounds [...] reclined Captain John Barker—a little wry-necked gentleman, with a prodigious hump between his shoulders, and legs that dangled two inches off the floor."
- "“Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!”"
Etymology
From wryneck + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more wrynecked (comparative)
most wrynecked (superlative)