al bundy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.20 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A slovenly man who is henpecked by his wife, curmudgeonly, low-paid and misogynist, and who pines for his time in high school.
Example Sentences
- "Have you ever met an Al Bundy in your life (someone who longs for the glory days of high school)?"
- "In a world hungry for stink, this appears to rival Al Bundy's socks"
- "What if Navid was doing an article on retired Baby Boomers, and he portrayed me as a lazy, shiftless person who was fortunate to have a devoted caring wife who allowed me to indulge in my leisure-time pursuits. Not only would this kill the book, but The National Organization of Women could mobilize and start picketing my house. I might become the Al Bundy of this decade! I quickly dismissed this notion."
- "People think the American eagle is extinct. Nah, they just went to the south and just stayed. Some men like red heads and red bones, they like robins with red breast. Tee, we should toast to the Al Bundy's of America. Let women have our paychecks and WalMart, while we wait for Barack Obama to handle business on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and bring change."
- "Looking back, I characterized Mr. Dan as the "Al Bundy" of the 5th grade because of his sense of humor and his recaps of the mid or late 20% century. He would always have everyone in the classroom laughing because he would have a ioke up his sleeve."
- "Basketball had taken me and my family from the small town of Carver, Massachusetts, to the Washington, DC, area so that I could play in a stronger league in high school. I was actually pretty good, but that's another story, and I don't want to be the Al Bundy of this book, so I'll leave it at that."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Al Bundy's (plural)