manjack
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person; the average or common person; anybody.
Example Sentences
- "Manjack see her and stagger, and as if to justify he staggering, he lean over to me and whisper: "Let we fire some rum." I tell he let we get pass the introductions first."
- "The box was jam packed full o' gifts for each manjack of us: razors, aftershave, toothbrushes, an' books."
- "In outward form and general appearance manjack is not unlike fine coal and is essentially a bituminous substance."
- "Oil-shales are often the last relics of a former impregnation with petroleum; they are associated with phenomena—such as the intrusive asphaltites or manjacks—common to petroliferous regions, but in many cases the parent oilfields, the sources of the former impregnation, are things of the past."
- "Manjack is the local name give to a naturally occurring variety of bitumen that was first mined in Trinidad just before the turn of the century. It has been variously spelt Manjac, Manjak, Munjac or Munjack."
- "Buck Island's uplands forest cover also includes frangipani, turpentine, Jamaican caper, manjack, Ginger Thomas, and water mampoo trees."
Etymology
From every man Jack.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Bahama manjack
black manjack
fragrant manjack
mucilage manjack
orange manjack
pink manjack
Puerto Rico manjack
red manjack
Synonyms
glance pitch