Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

whole boiling

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English

Syllables: whole boil-ing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The whole lot; all, or everybody.

Archaic

Example Sentences

""And Toughey—him as you call Jo—was mixed up in the same business, and no other; and the law-writer that you know of was mixed up in the same business, and no other; and your husband, with no more knowledge of it than your great grandfather, was mixed up (by Mr. Tulkinghorn, deceased, his best customer) in the same business, and no other; and the whole bileing^([sic]) of people was mixed up in the same business, and no other. […]""
"Well, I gave a better account of myself than Paddy here, for I made most of them keep their distance from me; but him they got on the turf before you could say Watch me eye, and the whole boiling of them was on top of him in the twinkling of the same."

Etymology

Suggesting a large load of laundry to be boiled clean.

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

the whole boiling (canonical)

Questions

What does whole boiling mean?: The whole lot; all, or everybody.
Where does whole boiling come from?: Suggesting a large load of laundry to be boiled clean.

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