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beikost

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
beikost
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An infant's first non-liquid food, such as mashed vegetables or applesauce, given to supplement or replace breast milk.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Beikost (“side dish; solid food (for infants)”). Apparently first attested in English in the 1980s.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

beikosts (plural)

Questions

What does beikost mean?
An infant's first non-liquid food, such as mashed vegetables or applesauce, given to supplement or replace breast milk.
Where does beikost come from?
It is traced to German.

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