zeerust
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A town in the province of North West, South Africa.
Example Sentences
- "It also features a nice bit of Zeerust in the form of a carefully reproduced Hollerith card."
- "If in a mere 60 years we've learned enough that the predictions of the Futurists then have become "zeerust" today, how long before the predictions on this very blog become subject of ridicule and sympathy directed at our naivete?"
- "Sci-fi and futuristic- lots of potential here it seems to me, though not as many real world example rides as I expected. I wonder if it's a cost issue or a fear of getting zeerust setting in as the ride ages."
Etymology
Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Q42 and British television producer and writer John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust.