Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

water crouton

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter crou-ton
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of ice cube.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"Water croutons!"
"I'm in the mood for soup. Ha! "With frozen water croutons" :-) [quoting a sign outside of a bar, pictured in the tweet]"
"some water croutons will be great rn 😔"
"whiskey with a water crouton"
"In my 32 years and countless bars along the us west coast I have never seen a single water crouton in a beer. Practically a crime."

Etymology

From water + crouton (“a small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread”), due to ice cubes being made of water and having roughly the same shape as a crouton.

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

water croutons (plural)

Synonyms

ice cube

Questions

What does water crouton mean?: Synonym of ice cube.
Where does water crouton come from?: From water + crouton (“a small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread”), due to ice cubes being made of water and having roughly the same shape as a crouton.

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