ziff
/zˈɪf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As for my trip to the Never Never, well, one lives and learns. I landed safely among a tribe of blacks, and asked an old buck with a white ziff if the 'Marys' of his tribe used paint and powder. He answered with an exceedingly broad nigger grin that 'they use'm charcoal.'"
- "The building style can be described as Stalinist Ceremonial at its most relaxed. That is, the external visual impression is as if some comedian had memorialised the moral fixities of Sir Henry Bolte and decorated the result with the late lamented Joe Stalin's ziff."
- "Now he wanted to use electric heat, and electricity was found wanting, and he couldn't understand the difference. Surely if a thing would do all that he had made it do, it should be able to boil water—it was hard to think that "stuff" which some old "ziff" had discovered over a hundred years ago was still better for some jobs than electricity."
- "[…] Y was a Yoxter that eat caper sauce; / Z was a Ziff who was flashed on the horse."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: זִיו
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- Dated
- Slang
- British usage
- Obsolete