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rosewater sailor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English

Syllables
rose-wa-ter -sailor
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An officer who is incompetent, or not well-suited for the seas.

Obsolete; Slang

Etymology

From rosewater + sailor.

Usage

Inflected Forms

rosewater sailors (plural)

Questions

What does rosewater sailor mean?
An officer who is incompetent, or not well-suited for the seas.
Where does rosewater sailor come from?
From rosewater + sailor.

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