zizzy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The irrepressible and arguably irredeemable Al Capp, an expansive, mature and very regular citizen from New Haven, Connecticut, is a man with a facility for open, cynical wise-cracks, a man who knows a zizzy pin-stripe when he sees one […]"
- "How did you write a zizzy tabloid head in ten minutes from what they did have in the box?"
- "A week ago, she had daubed them all with body paint—Hugh and Robert red with spots, even the solemn Charles a zizzy green."
- "There's a zizzy feeling, prickles in my fingers and toes and a sudden blackness with whorls of light. When I come to Aunt is leaning over me, her ear next to my heart and her fat hot fingers loosening the buttons at the collar of my dress."
- "I go to the window again in my terry-cloth robe, my heart pumping, a zizzy bee-sting quiver down my arms and legs, my bare feet cold on the floor planks."
Etymology
From zizz + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more zizzy (comparative)
most zizzy (superlative)