Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

battleshippy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bat-tle-ship-py
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.

Example Sentences

"She couldn't have been so battleshippy, either, and it's no wonder she had so little trouble picking a husband, though why she picked Edgar Dudley I can't imagine, unless it was because of the mica mine."
"But if you put a carrier up as a second strike strategic potential in a nuclear all-out war, I must say that is a little battleshippy to me, or the long-range subsonic bomber so far as the future is concerned."

Etymology

From battleship + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: battleship

Inflected Forms

more battleshippy (comparative) most battleshippy (superlative)

Questions

What does battleshippy mean?: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a battleship.
Where does battleshippy come from?: From battleship + -y.

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