zigzagger
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.
Example Sentences
- "Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment."
- "If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger."
- "That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target"
- "As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories,"
- "In the view of Greenberg and his colleagues, Clinton […] was a zigzagger who tailored his views to suit voters."
Etymology
From zigzag + -er.