Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chew the meat and spit out the bones

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables
chew the meat and spit out the bones
IPA
50
Scrabble Score
29
Letters
1
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

chews the meat and spits out the bones (present, singular) chewing the meat and spitting out the bones (participle, present) chewed the meat and spat out the bones (participle, past) chewed the meat and spat out the bones (past) chewed the meat and spit out the bones (participle, past) chewed the meat and spit out the bones (past)

Phrases

separate the wheat from the chaff

Frequently Paired Words

separate the wheat from the chaff

Questions

What does chew the meat and spit out the bones mean?
To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

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