spear biscuits
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spear, biscuits.
Example Sentences
- "They're great campers and know how to spear biscuits and how to avoid the pussy footers and use a number ten gunboat can and chuck a dummy and hunt a wampus, you know, cool things like that."
- "“Anything to keep from 'spearing biscuits' ... that's a last resort.” “Uh,” Terry began, before finally just giving up and asking, “What's that mean?” “Spearing biscuits? That's the polite way of saying digging through garbage looking for food."
- "If the hall-and-parlor house represents education in the main, then we critical educators are as rare as hen's teeth, shunted to the rear of the house, squatters huddled under a slanted roof, wearing fingerless gloves, clutching our tin cups of broth, spearing biscuits and dreaming of the day when we will become an official part of the architecture of democracy."
- "Most of the cowboys were either eating or standing in line at their spread's chuck wagon, taking plate, cup, and eating tools, then spearing biscuits and a steak from a row of Dutch ovens ..."
Inflected Forms
spears biscuits (present, singular)
spearing biscuits (participle, present)
speared biscuits (participle, past)
speared biscuits (past)