beauty-sleep
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep.’"
- "And would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night, and the quality always made a point of paying four times over for a man's loss of his beauty-sleep. I replied that his loss of beauty-sleep was rather improving to a man of so high complexion; and that I, being none of that quality, must pay half-quality prices; […]"
- "At first he was quite peevish. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out.""