Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bootstrappy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
boot-strap-py
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.

Informal

Example Sentences

Etymology

From the idiomatic phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more bootstrappy (comparative) most bootstrappy (superlative)

Questions

What does bootstrappy mean?
Hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.
Where does bootstrappy come from?
From the idiomatic phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

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