beefheartian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet; 1941–2010), American singer-songwriter.
Example Sentences
- "Jangly-pop ought to be danced with Morrisseyesque feyness, above-it-all gestures that echo the 'free dancing' of the counterculture, while the Beefheartian thrash of bands like Stump and A Witness incites a bacchanalian delirium."
- "This isn't Buzzcocks circa 1978, and their dilemma over whether to tread further Beefheartian leanings or opt to become a post-punk Herman's Hermits (no put-down intended)."
Inflected Forms
more Beefheartian (comparative)
most Beefheartian (superlative)