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turning on the waterworks

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English

Syllables
turn-ing on the wa-ter-works
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of turn on the waterworks

Questions

What does turning on the waterworks mean?
present participle and gerund of turn on the waterworks

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