bespurred
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Esperonné: m. ée: f. Spurred; alſo, beſpurred, hauing ſpurres on his heeles."
- "Well, the procession moved on, and, as I got under the canopy, berobed, bemitred, besceptered, and bespurred, I caught a glimpse of Miss Fellows, the herb-woman, who, with six devilish handsome girls, were strewing rosemary and tansy on the blue broadcloth from Manchester;"
- "We found a couple of companion spirits already there, bebooted and bespurred and bebreeched."
- "Europe went wild about the cowboy, and all Americans were thought of as striding about bespurred, booted, and hipped with .45’s and lariats, riding a bronco furiously through the main street of every city from New York to Laramie."
Etymology
From be- + spur + -ed.