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stirred up a hornets' nest

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables
stirred up a hor-net-s' nest
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of stir up a hornets' nest

Questions

What does stirred up a hornets' nest mean?
simple past and past participle of stir up a hornets' nest

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