b 3 e 1 a 1 t 1 n 1 i 1 k 5
7 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
originCoined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + -nik (“person who exemplifies or endorses something”). Compare jazznik. The suffix, a cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -ник (-nik), experienced a surge of use in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- bankit 12
- baken 11
- batik 11
- intake 10
- bake 10
- bank 10
- beak 10
- bike 10
- bink 10
- kibe 10
- nabk 10
- taken 9