Noun: chordee
| Singular | chordee |
| Plural | chordees |
Sample Sentences
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Enderby, blinking and squinting, noting that he had slept with his teeth in, wondering where he had put his contact lenses, was emboldened by morning chordee to say, ‘Oughtn’t you to come back to bed for a while?’ [1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:]
Nouns inflected like chordee
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French (chaude-pisse) cordée (“corded (urethral discharge)”), ultimately from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “entrails, intestines”). See: French Nouns '
cordée', Latin Nouns '
chorda', Ancient Greek Nouns '
χορδή'.