Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

persist it down

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: per-sist it -down
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Humorous euphemism for piss it down (rain heavily).

Example Sentences

"We got home just in time to watch the clouds start to persist it down."

Inflected Forms

persists it down (present, singular) persisting it down (participle, present) persisted it down (participle, past) persisted it down (past)

Questions

What does persist it down mean?: Humorous euphemism for piss it down (rain heavily).

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