Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eat the bread of idleness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English

Syllables: eat the bread- of i-dle-ness
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned.

Archaic; Obsolete

Usage

Inflected Forms

eats the bread of idleness (present, singular) eating the bread of idleness (participle, present) ate the bread of idleness (past) eaten the bread of idleness (participle, past)

Questions

What does eat the bread of idleness mean?: To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned.

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