Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lady or tiger

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

Syllables: la-dy or tiger
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.

Etymology

From the short story The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton, in which a condemned man is offered two doors, one of which leads to a beautiful woman and the other to a ferocious tiger.

Questions

What does lady or tiger mean?: A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.
Where does lady or tiger come from?: From the short story The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton, in which a condemned man is offered two doors, one of which leads to a beautiful woman and the other to a ferocious tiger.

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