Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keeping one's head upon one's shoulders

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables
keep-ing one's -head- upon one's shoul-ders
IPA
49
Scrabble Score
32
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of keep one's head upon one's shoulders

Questions

What does keeping one's head upon one's shoulders mean?
present participle and gerund of keep one's head upon one's shoulders

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