Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bathtubby

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bath-tub-by
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a bathtub.

Informal

Example Sentences

"I stride through my nursery domain / And the bathtubby ocean I scan; / While faithfully march in my train / Weird creatures of cotton and bran."
"I think opera recordings which present these big bathtubby sounds in extremely prominent positions, the way they would never be in the context of the opera, are a mistake, to my ear. I don't like that."
"Water creeps up my neck, warm and bathtubby."

Etymology

From bathtub + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: bathtub

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more bathtubby (comparative) most bathtubby (superlative)

Questions

What does bathtubby mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a bathtub.
Where does bathtubby come from?: From bathtub + -y.

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