Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shell-like

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.39 in modern English

Syllables: shel-l--like
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a similar shape to a seashell.

adj

Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell.

Dated; Literary

noun

The ear.

Australian usage; British usage; Slang

Example Sentences

""Nay, speak not so hastily; consider well the point; take me feature by feature, forgetting not my form, and my hands and feet, and my hair, and the whiteness of my skin, and then tell me truly, hast thou ever known a woman who in aught, ay, in one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an eyelash even, or the modelling of a shell-like ear, is justified to hold a light before my loveliness?""
"Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?"

Etymology

From shell + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: shell

Usage

Inflected Forms

more shell-like (comparative) most shell-like (superlative) shelllike (alternative) shell-likes (plural)

Questions

What does shell-like mean?: Having a similar shape to a seashell.
Where does shell-like come from?: From shell + -like.

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