soup-bowl
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Their lands are pledged to nearly the full value, and are rack-rented; and their position could not be maintained as it is but for the occasional sops which they contrive to fish out of the soup-bowls, supplied by the government for the relief of the famished."
- "He was about to turn away then, when upon the topmost shelf he caught a glimpse of the very thing Janie had been most anxious to hide from him, a silver tureen, very elegant and very massive. It had been a wedding present to Mrs. Gerald’s grandmother. “I’ll just take that there soup-bowl,” he remarked. “Mount up on a cheer, little gal, an’ hand it down to me.”"
- "Donlavey praised his engine builder, Bud Moore, and added that the Ford engine has “less low end tourque,^([sic]) so it’s better for this track,” which is a big soup-bowl of a speedway."