Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

putting the frighteners on someone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

Syllables
putting the fright-en-er-s on -some-one
IPA
45
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of put the frighteners on someone

Questions

What does putting the frighteners on someone mean?
present participle and gerund of put the frighteners on someone

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