Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sootbag

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: soot-bag
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bag of soot.

Example Sentences

"One portion of the public had flown to arms because Mr. Crawshay had jocularly talked of sending a sweep and a sootbag in the third-class train to keep respectable people out."

Etymology

From soot + bag.

Inflected Forms

sootbags (plural)

Questions

What does sootbag mean?: A bag of soot.
Where does sootbag come from?: From soot + bag.

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