greasey spoon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Rare spelling of greasy spoon.
Example Sentences
- "Yesterday coming down from Verdun on a train of eighty wagons we were 22 hours on duty. Was called for 3 A. M. and of course wanted a bite to eat before leaving, so we went to the usual mess hall “greasey spoon” and were given a mess kit full of rice, no milk, no sugar, no bread and coffee, it was all gone. Some breakfast I’ll say."
- "Wanna hit the same greasey spoon? God, can’t anybody in Kansas City cook? Not many flies though, huh?"
- "You look at a menu and there it all is, just as you’d find à la carte in Beaune or Bordeaux. Until the stuff arrives on the table and you find the French language has been camouflaging crappy old Canadian “greasey spoon”."